Tiktok: Children as young as nine shown Covid misinformation

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NewsGuard, who provides a browser extension that flags up untrustworthy information, has found that the social networking app TikTok feeds Covid vaccine misinformation videos to children within minutes of them signing up to the service. Alex Cadier, managing director of NewsGuard in the UK, talks about the study and discusses the findings. (Image: Teenager on smartphone, Credit: Getty Images.)