TikTok Shuts Down ‘Covert Influence Networks’ Targeting Philippines Elections

TikTok removes 3 fake networks posting election-related content

MANILA, Philippines – TikTok announced it removed three inauthentic networks targeting Philippine-based audiences on the platform and engaging in covert influence operations ahead of the 2025 midterm elections. In a press release sent on Wednesday, May 21, TikTok said it had taken down the following three networks with specific numbers of accounts: 124 accounts with a total of 10,311 followers 36 accounts with a total of 18,855 followers 29 acc…

TikTok shuts down ‘covert influence networks’ targeting Philippines elections

The social media platform said the networks created fake accounts “to amplify narratives favouring certain politicians”.

The last election campaign was full of disinformation, false and invented content up to the absurd, which do not even deserve to be called fake news. Its propagators were trolls and bots that contaminated social networks with fictitious reports, lying videos, some of them with the use of artificial intelligence ;. Such disrepute and the bad vibe of those divulgators led many citizens to decide to contrast what they read and saw on social network…

TikTok Shuts Down ‘covert Influence Networks’ Targeting Philippines Midterm Elections - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

TikTok said it had shut down three “covert influence networks” and removed more than one million fake or spam accounts targeting users in the Philippines ahead of the country’s recent midterm election, amid growing concerns over the role of social media in distorting the country’s political discourse. The short-form video platform, owned by China’s ByteDance, disclosed the takedowns in an update published Wednesday from its Global Integrity Hub.…