Young TikTok users exposed to Nazi and hateful content, P3 News review finds

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Young TikTok users exposed to Nazi and hateful content, P3 News review finds
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Almost a third of the political posts users receive on TikTok contain elements of hatred, incitement or gross violations.

This is shown by a survey of thousands of TikTok posts carried out by P3 News using eight fake profiles and AI analysis.

A number of accounts are urging users to join the Nordic Resistance Movement, NMR.

But Lukasz Lindell, communications manager at TikTok, believes the system is robust.

Then we have actors who try to circumvent the systems as much as they can with various distortions of words, with misspellings, with symbols. That's something we need to learn from, he tells P3 Nyheter.

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