The China-based video sharing app will also start testing “mandatory verification” for governments, politicians and political party accounts.
NEW YORK — Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, TikTok announced Wednesday it is banning of campaign fundraising on its platform. It also announced new policies for political accounts, including “mandatory verification.”
In upcoming weeks, the app, which already bans political advertising, will also ban campaign fundraising, Blake Chandlee, president of global business solutions for TikTok, said in a blog post. The ban will include videos asking for donations, and videos from political parties directing people to a donation page on their website.
The China-based video sharing app will also start testing “mandatory verification” for governments, politicians and political party accounts in an attempt to “keep harmful misinformation off the platform.”
Verification will ensure that anyone watching content belonging to a government, politician, or political party account will know that the account is “genuine” and that the source is “authentic,” Chandlee wrote.
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