Scammers are using TikTok to cash in on the invasion of Ukraine
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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Tiktok - A Platform for War Footage
Tiktok's sound feature, whereby users can easily add sounds from an existing library to their vidios, was a big part of the platform back when it was called i dance. Users were adding gunfire audio to their own videos to make them seem as though they were taken during the invasion. Researcher and friend of the show, abbe richards found that audio of gunfire from a vibral video filmed before the invasion ever even began was used in over 17 hundred vidios until tiktok removed it.
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