This is stated in the TikTok report According to CNBC, Ukrinform.

According to the platform, posts on the video-sharing site targeted Ukrainian, Russian and many European users, featuring content intended to “artificially strengthen pro-Russian narratives” about the war.

Some accounts were incorrectly tagged as news sources.

Separate investigation The BBC discovered 800 fake accounts targeting European countries with false claims that senior Ukrainian officials and their relatives bought luxury cars or villas abroad after Russia’s invasion in February 2022. The investigation says these videos had a clear purpose: to undermine support for the West.

A representative for TikTok told CNBC that the company began investigating these accounts before the BBC’s investigation, and that any fake accounts identified have been removed.

Most of the fake accounts detected by TikTok (more than 12,000) were operated from Russian territory and were spreading Kremlin military propaganda in local languages ​​in Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Serbia, Czech Republic, Poland and Greece.

However, some of the accounts identified were found to be operated from Ukrainian territory and “artificially reinforce narratives aimed at raising funds for the Ukrainian military.”

According to TikTok, although the total number of followers of fake accounts has exceeded one million, videos published on the platform are often watched by millions of people.

As reported by Ukrinform, the European Commission Google published a report on compliance with the Disinformation Code of Conduct, to which important international Internet platforms such as Meta, Microsoft, TikTok voluntarily participated.

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