The firm is struggling to stop climate misinformation spreading on its platform, BBC investigation finds.
But while Mr Peña's statements conflict with that scientific evidence, this clip appears to have been edited and re-uploaded by other users from different TikTok accounts dozens of times, racking up more than nine million views in the process.unveiled by TikTok last April, content that "undermines well-established scientific consensus" on climate change will not be allowed on the platform.
TikTok itself deems climate change denial to be "harmful misinformation". Using tools available to any TikTok user, we reported those videos to the platform under that category. We then waited for at least a day to find out whether they would be taken down. In a statement to the BBC, TikTok said it is working "to empower informed climate discussions", and that it is working with fact-checkers to tackle misinformation.
But the video of Mr Peña demonstrates how "bad arguments can spread really fast on TikTok", says Roshan Salgado D'Arcy, a science communicator who uses social media to debunk viral videos that contain false claims about climate change.Image caption,
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