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Panfilo Lacson, and Leody de Guzman became among the most watched content on the platform. However, historians and factcheckers fear that TikTok could be a new means to spread disinformation that can evade scrutiny. According to Tony La Viña, the lead convener of the Movement Against Disinformation, the platform’s feature to upload a 3-minute short is “exactly why TikTok has become relevant in the context of the 2022 elections, (where) the majority of the 2022 voters are the youth vote. [That] and the nature of short-form videos itself: one (false) video can destroy hours of your work in terms of explaining something.”

Moreover, a study published by Internews in December 2021 on emerging social media platforms observed “misinformation and disinformation on TikTok videos, particularly on COVID-19 and the upcoming 2022 Philippine general elections, with fairly huge engagements, although it is difficult to discern how extensive the reach of such content is.” n