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TikTok’s lack of moderation led to objectifying and sexist language appearing in search suggestions for female politicians and pushed almost exclusively negative information about certain politicians both male and female. These are findings from Finnish methodologies company CheckFirst and fact-checking service Faktabaari, as part of their CrossOver project. For example, the suggestions for former Prime Minister Sanna Marin included “Sanna Marin masturbation video”. The suggestions for Eva Biaudet, MP for the right-of-centre Swedish People’s Party of Finland, included “Eva and Kristian have se…

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