tiktok, it s arguably particularly bad because the way tiktok as a platform works. anyone can post anything and it has the potential to reach thousands or even millions of years. thousands or even millions of ears. . , , ., , years. that is rush, he has known for years. that is rush, he has known for debunking - years. that is rush, he has known for debunking viral| known for debunking viral videos that make false claims about climate change. i do that by basically about climate change. i do that by basically comparing - about climate change. i do that by basically comparing the - by basically comparing the claims being made to scientific literature and exposing where they go wrong. bad arguments can spread really fast. we thou~ht can spread really fast. we thought we can spread really fast. we thought we would you give to could actually remove these videos and living up to their promise. so we reported 365 climate denying videos. but after a day, almost 95% of them were still th
we waited for at least a day and then went back to find out whether they d been taken down. as it turns out, almost 95% of the videos we reported were still on tiktok, and make no mistaek these posts are getting attention. they racked up almost 30 million views. that building over there, that s tiktok s uk headquarters, right here at the heart of london. i asked the company for an interview but it declined. instead, it sent us a statement, it said it also said it s working with fact checkers and that people searching for content about climate change on tiktok are being shown a link to authoritative information. after we sent tiktok links to all of the videos we reported, they took most of them down, and the ones that
spread really fast. we thought we d check if tiktok were actually removing these videos and living up to their promise. so, we reported 365 climate denying videos. but after a day, almost 95% of them were still there. and make no mistake these posts are getting attention. they racked up almost 30 million views. that building over there? that s tiktok s uk headquarters, right here at the heart of london. i asked the company for an interview but it declined. instead, it sent us a statement. tiktok says: it also said it s working with fact checkers and that people searching for content about climate change on tiktok are being shown a link to authoritative information. but why is any of this important? we know that there is a very rapidly closing window for us to deal with the problem
and then went back to find out whether they d been taken down. as it turns out, almost 95% of the videos we reported were still on tiktok, and make no mistaek and make no mistake these posts are getting attention. they racked up almost 30 million views. that building over there, that s tiktok s uk headquarters, right here at the heart of london. i asked the company for an interview but it declined. instead, it sent us a statement, it said the company prohibits harmful climate change misinformation and that it has permanently removed the content and accounts that we found violated its policies. it also said it s working with fact checkers and that people searching for content about climate change on tiktok are being shown a link to authoritative information. after we sent tiktok links to all of the videos we reported, they took most of them down, and the ones that are still online, well, for the most part, they will no longer be recommended
of harmful misinformation, which is available to any user. we waited for at least a day and then went back to find out whether they d been taken down. as it turns out, almost 95% of the videos we reported were still on tiktok, and make no mistake these posts are getting attention. they racked up almost 30 million views. that building over there, that s tiktok s uk headquarters, right here at the heart of london. i asked the company for an interview but it declined. instead, it sent us a statement, it said the company prohibits harmful climate change misinformation and that it has permanently removed the content and accounts that we found violated its policies. it also said it s working with fact checkers and that people searching for content about climate change on tiktok are being shown a link to authoritative information. after we sent tiktok links to all of the videos we reported,