⁍ TikTok is launching an elections guide in the video-sharing app to give users information about the 2020 U.S. elections.
⁍ The guide will give users access to information about federal, state and local candidates.
⁍ It will also include educational videos about media literacy and the elections process.
– TikTok, the video-sharing app under fire from the Trump administration for its handling of user data, is launching an elections guide in the app to help protect against misinformation ahead of the 2020 US elections, Reuters reports. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny from President Trump’s administration over concerns about its handling of users’ data. “Our elections guide is built with user privacy in mind, so a user must visit the website for a state or a non-profit for anything that involves sharing their information, including registering to vote,” TikTok’s head of US public policy said in a blog post Tuesday. “Interactions with this guide in our app have no bearing on future TikTok experiences, such as recommendations or ads.” TikTok was on Sunday granted a last-minute reprieve by a US judge, who temporarily blocked a Trump administration order set to bar Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google from offering TikTok for download.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-tiktok/tiktok-launches-us-elections-guide-to-combat-misinformation-idUSL1N2GQ0AD