The availability of the “Greek Voting Center” for the 2023 national elections on the app was announced today by tik tak.

According to the platform’s statement, the Center will provide election-related information and institutional sources and will link to the official websites of the Ministry of the Interior. Near, Election-related content and accounts will receive an appropriate tag that will link to the Hub..

Popular campaign hashtags will provide easy access to the hub for any user looking for up-to-date information. Giacomo Lev Mannheimer, TikTok’s Head of Government Relations for Southeast Europe and Israel, stressed that access to trusted information is an important part of the platform’s overall strategy to combat disinformation and promote media literacy.

TikTok is working with reputable fact-checkers, including AFP in Greece, to remind them that sponsored political ads are banned on TikTok, he said.

Accounts associated with political content are automatically disabled for monetization, and TikTok policy does not allow fundraising, Manheimer added.

“We are committed to protecting the integrity of the platform and the security of TikTok during the Greek elections. We ban and remove content related to election disinformation.advocating violence and other violations of our policies. We have partnered with authoritative fact-checkers, including the AFP agency in Greece, and have introduced features to provide our community with reliable information about the Greek elections in our app.”

Source: RES-IPE