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DALLAS, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the leader in cloud security, through its Internet Safety for Kids and Families (ISKF) program, today launched its
What s Your Story? 2021 video competition. The annual contest is designed to give students a platform to educate others and nurture safer, more responsible use of the internet. Unlike most video contests, participants must both submit an entry and demonstrate that they can be an advocate for their own message. Contestants are asked to encourage their fans and communities to view and rate their entries as evidence of this advocacy.
TikTok to flag and downrank ‘unsubstantiated’ claims fact checkers can’t verify
TikTok this morning announced a new feature that aims to combat the spread of misinformation on its platform. In addition to removing videos that are identified to be spreading false information, as verified by fact-checking partners, the company says it will now also flag videos where fact checks are inconclusive. These videos may also become ineligible for promotion into anyone’s For You page, TikTok notes.
The new feature will first launch in the U.S. and Canada, but will become globally available in the “coming weeks.”
The company explains that fact checkers aren’t always able to verify the information being reported in users’ videos. This could be because the fact check is inconclusive or can’t be immediately confirmed, such as in the case of “unfolding events.” (The recent storming of the U.S. Capitol comes to mind as an “unfolding event” that led to a surge of social me
TikTok Implements Prompts To Deter Users From Proliferating Misinformation
TikTok is introducing platform-wide prompts in a bid to clamp down on the spread of misinformation, which will instruct users to think twice before sharing clips that could contain falsities.
In a blog post, TikTok noted it already has measures in place to remove misinformation as determined by fact-checking partners
PolitiFact,
Lead Stories, and
SciVerify. If fact-checks are inconclusive, however, TikTok says it may render clips ineligible for recommendation in its flagship ‘
For You‘ feed.
Today, however, the company is going a step further by placing a banner on videos that have been reviewed by fact-checkers but cannot be conclusively validated. Now, if a viewer attempts to share a flagged video, they will receive a prompt reminding them that the content is unverified, with options to ‘cancel’ or ‘share anyway’. At the same time, creators will receive notifications that their videos h