Focus Area
TikTok Audit
As part of the project Approaches to Analyse and Evaluate AI-Based Recommendation Systems for Internet Intermediaries we are closely examining the social media platform TikTok. On this page and at tiktok-audit.com, we are collecting various insights, both minor and major, that we gained during the examination of the platform.
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June 28, 2024: TikToks Effect on Consumer Protection
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June 7, 2024: TikTok's Impact on Consumer Rights: A Closer Look!
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June 7, 2024: How young adults use TikTok
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June 7, 2024: Exploring TikTok's Individual Harms for Young Adults
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April 26, 2024: Decoding Success: How Temu and Shein Rule TikTok with Promo Codes
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March 28, 2024: Hashtags Horizons: What we see and what not
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March 01, 2024: Auditing TikTok: Our methodology and dataset
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February 29, 2024: Auditing TikTok: Defining Scenarios for TikTok Audits
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February 21, 2024: Tik-Tok, DSA O'Clock?
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February 12, 2024: Ads, Ads, Ads. How the for you feed is clogged with ads.
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February 9, 2024: What the first months of DSA enforcement have meant for TikTok (and other big platforms)
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January 19, 2024: Auditing TikTok: Methodological reflections on the RSBA process. A short analysis of political ads and TikToks new advertisement library
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January 10, 2024: Shop Till You Drop...: How Temu exploits TikTok's affordances. A short analysis of political ads and TikToks new advertisement library
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November 7, 2023: Minors à la carte: TikTok allows profiling of underage teens. We look into the Research API and its shortcomings.
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October 16, 2023: The Research API falls woefully short. We look into the Research API and its shortcomings.
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October 13, 2023: How TikTok drags users into the digital war zone. An analysis of the suggested searches related to the Israel-Hamas War
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September 25, 2023: We found 100 political ads on TikTok Germany. An update on political ads in Germany + Dataset