The mood “Center of Greek Elections“, for National Elections 2023within the app, TikTok announced today.

According to the announcement of the platform, the Centre will provide information and institutional sources related to the elections and will refer to the official websites of the Ministry of the Interior. At the same time, content and accounts related to the elections will receive a relevant label that will refer to the Center.

Access will also be provided to popular election hashtags, so that anyone looking for that content can easily access the hub. Its head of government relations TikTok for SE Europe and Israel, Giacomo Lev Mannheimer, underlined that providing access to valid information is an important part of the platform’s overall strategy to combat electoral disinformation and promote media literacy. In fact, he pointed out that in order to prevent electoral disinformation, TikTok works with reputable fact-checkersincluding AFP in Greece. He also reminded that on TikTok sponsored political ads are prohibitedwith accounts related to political content automatically having their monetization features disabled, and noted that TikTok’s policies do not allow fundraising.

“We are committed to protecting the integrity of the platform and securing TikTok during the Greek elections. We prohibit and remove content that engages in election disinformation, promotion of violence, and other violations of our policies. We work with reputable fact-checkers, including the AFP in Greece, while we have introduced features to provide our community with authoritative information about the Greek elections, within our apphe said.