"Learn the Facts About COVID-19": Analyzing the Use of Warning Labels on TikTok Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07726v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:05:23 GMT
• Title: "Learn the Facts About COVID-19": Analyzing the Use of Warning Labels on TikTok Videos
• Authors: Chen Ling and Krishna P. Gummadi and Savvas Zannettou
• Abstract summary: We analyze the use of warning labels on TikTok, focusing on COVID-19 videos. Our analysis shows that TikTok broadly applies warning labels on TikTok videos. More worrying is the addition of COVID-19 warning labels on videos where their actual content is not related to COVID-19.
• Score: 12.196005698116858
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, health-related misinformation and harmful content shared online had a significant adverse effect on society. To mitigate this adverse effect, mainstream social media platforms employed soft moderation interventions (i.e., warning labels) on potentially harmful posts. Despite the recent popularity of these moderation interventions, we lack empirical analyses aiming to uncover how these warning labels are used in the wild, particularly during challenging times like the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work, we analyze the use of warning labels on TikTok, focusing on COVID-19 videos. First, we construct a set of 26 COVID-19 related hashtags, then we collect 41K videos that include those hashtags in their description. Second, we perform a quantitative analysis on the entire dataset to understand the use of warning labels on TikTok. Then, we perform an in-depth qualitative study, using thematic analysis, on 222 COVID-19 related videos to assess the content and the connection between the content and the warning labels. Our analysis shows that TikTok broadly applies warning labels on TikTok videos, likely based on hashtags included in the description. More worrying is the addition of COVID-19 warning labels on videos where their actual content is not related to COVID-19 (23% of the cases in a sample of 143 English videos that are not related to COVID-19). Finally, our qualitative analysis on a sample of 222 videos shows that 7.7% of the videos share misinformation/harmful content and do not include warning labels, 37.3% share benign information and include warning labels, and that 35% of the videos that share misinformation/harmful content (and need a warning label) are made for fun. Our study demonstrates the need to develop more accurate and precise soft moderation systems, especially on a platform like TikTok that is extremely popular among people of younger age.

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