TikTok will open up its 2022 Election Center this week to get a head start on combatting misinformation on the platform, U.S. head of safety Eric Han revealed in a blog post. That’s six full weeks earlier than during the 2020 presidential election.
Han also announced that TikTok will no longer allow paid influencer content pertaining to politics in the months leading up to the midterm elections. TikTok hasn’t allowed political ads since 2019, and influencer posts have been used as a sort of loophole to that rule until now.
