TikTok ripe with mental health misinformation, new study reports

The Internet is both terrible in spreading information and community. In a sense, a person can provide access to many people and perspectives that are not available in their daily life. At the same time, it can be Rested with wrong information and people who hurt more than good.

Now a New research Guardian It reveals how interlealls of these two things can be. The investigation consists of at least some incorrect information from the top 100 videos from 52 Mental Health Specialists. These clips discussed terms and experiences such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, neurovergenge and more.

“Tiktok, when these recommendations are not treated, they are more worst, such as a failure, there are hidden universal recommendations and truths that can feel worse, they say that these instructions are simply as treated, there are truths and truths.” Guardian.

Experts have been appointed Four main themes Within misleading and incorrect information. First, the pathology came to videos, like normal emotions, as a feeling of fatigue or discomfort, as a clear indicators of fatigue or special mental health disorders every day. As can be seen, it means that the audience is experiencing any symptoms of a mental health disorder to live with him.

Then, it was a therapeutic language abuse to explain certain actions, using words such as a mental health disorder or misuse, without context or nuance. The third category was reported to be most common: Failed treatment and false claims. The trauma of a certain method to these clips only heals in an hour that accepts certain things, which will facilitate the concerns of depression and produced.

The latest topic was anecdotal evidence. Videos in this area include recommendations based on their experiences of creators only to get penalty treatment. Another showed someone in a hospital gown, who said they were in a psychiatric section because he was very honest with the therapist.

Invalid data is a great issue in social media platforms, many companies do not have anything about it. For example, take a meta has removed the fact of the fact of the fact In this April in the United States. Instead, he chose community records that allow the posts to the answers.

Tiktok claimed more than one year “Problemed” content and Incomplete videos. Shared in a statement GuardianTiktok spokesman approved the application to be a place where people can share and receive support for mental health practices. “There are clear restrictions on the methodology of this work, which is against this free expression and offers people not allowed to share their stories.”

Spokecheron added that Tiktok claims that the World Health Organization in England and the NHS in the UK, the application “98 percent of malicious error information before us notified.