{"id":5913,"date":"2025-04-28T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T10:18:50","slug":"tiktok-and-the-truth-navigating-the-challenges-of-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5913\/tiktok-and-the-truth-navigating-the-challenges-of-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok and the Truth: Navigating the Challenges of Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIntroduction:\n\n\n\nTikTok (formerly known as Musical.ly), was introduced in January of 2020 and became an online community where users could watch, create, and share short-form videos from mobile devices (D\u2019Souza, 2025). The app stands out for its high levels of engagement and captivating nature thanks to its customised feeds containing quirky short-form videos with sound effects and music (D\u2019Souza, 2025). However, due to its widespread use, the platform has witnessed a flood of misinformation <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5913\/tiktok-and-the-truth-navigating-the-challenges-of-misinformation\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: TikTok (formerly known as Musical.ly), was introduced in January of 2020 and became an online community where users could watch, create, and share short-form videos from mobile devices (D\u2019Souza, 2025). The app stands out for its high levels of engagement and captivating nature thanks to its customised feeds containing quirky short-form videos with sound effects and music (D\u2019Souza, 2025). However, due to its widespread use, the platform has witnessed a flood of misinformation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}