Tiktok tries to tackle misinformation. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning

Report from the BBC World Service. I'm Luke Wilson, and for Leanna Byrne, thanks for

being with us. Over the weekend, Tiktok said it will assign more staff to combat false

and inaccurate content about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Around a million Palestinians

are believed to have fled south from Northern Gaza, ahead of what is expected to be a major

ground offensive by Israel. It's in response to an attack by Hamas which killed 1,400

people in Israel last week. Hamas is designated as a terror organisation by many governments,

including the US and the EU. Since then, Israel has blockaded and bombarded Gaza, killing

more than 2,700 people. The European Union says it will investigate X, formerly known

as Twitter, over how it's handled misinformation related to the war, like doctored images and

mislabeled videos. The BBC's Surinjana Tawari has more.

Tiktok says it has removed violent content and accounts and has mobilised significant

resources and personnel to help maintain the safety of the community and the integrity

of the platform. Of course, there's X, which was formerly Twitter, there's YouTube, there's

Meta, Facebook, the owner of Facebook and Instagram. They did receive similar warnings

about misinformation along with the 24-hour deadline. The problem, especially with X,

is that Elon Musk actually dismantled a lot of the misinformation safeguards that had been put

onto Twitter during the US election when Donald Trump won. And this is really the first conflict

that we're seeing, this kind of misinformation come back up. Mr. Musk says that the platform needs

to be a space for free speech and those safeguards shouldn't be there, but clearly there are a lot

of issues with not having any checks and balances at all. Facebook and Instagram have got those safeguards

and have said they are reinforcing them as well, given the news coming out of the Middle East.

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