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EPISODE · Sep 19, 2022 · 18 MIN

Tik Tok & disinformation: A new warning from a media watchdog

from Midday · host WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore

Joining Tom now is journalist Jack Brewster. He’s a senior analyst for NewsGuard, a media monitoring organization based in New York. In this month’s edition of Newsguard’s Misinformation Monitor, he and his colleagues report about misinformation on Tik Tok, an Internet domain that is wildly popular with young people in particular, and which, according to the report, is chock-full of posts that include conspiracy theories and all manner of bad information. Jack Brewster joins us on Zoom from Ridgefield, Connecticut.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.

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