TikTok is battling false voter-fraud allegations spread on the platform by conservative accounts

As Facebook and Twitter flagged President Donald Trump's misleading messages about election results, that misinformation was picked up by other conservative voices online and amplified on TikTok.

Two pro-Trump TikTok pages, Republican Hype House and The Republican Boys — which together have more than 1 million followers — posted several misleading or inaccurate videos about election results. Many of their claims, including that Democrats would somehow steal the election, echoed Trump's messages.

TikTok removed the videos. A TikTok representative told Insider in a statement that the platform was working with fact-checking partners to "assess the accuracy of content" as part of its election-integrity guidelines.

"If claims cannot be verified or if fact-checking is inconclusive, we'll limit distribution of the content. If the content is confirmed to be false information, we will remove it," the representative said.

One video posted by Republican Hype House that was deleted soon after it was posted spread the false claim that Wisconsin had counted more votes than its number of registered voters.

As BuzzFeed News reported, that's false. Wisconsin had more than 3.6 million active registered voters as of Sunday, and 3.2 million votes had been counted as of Wednesday afternoon. The claim was popularized by a tweet from Mike Coudrey, a pro-Trump investor, that the platform removed for violating its rules prohibiting misinformation.

Meanwhile, the Republican Boys account spread the myth that Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, "magically" gained hundreds of thousands of votes in Wisconsin and Michigan. The account included a screenshot of a tweet from Benny Johnson of the pro-Trump group Turning Point USA that said: "There is zero explanation for this. What is happening? this is INSANE!"

But as The Daily Beast reported, "this was neither magic nor insane, but the results of those states counting legally cast ballots."

The Republican Boys later shared another video baselessly alleging voter fraud and acknowledging that the platform had already removed one of their videos. "Voter fraud is strong in this election," one of the young conservative men who post videos on the account said. TikTok removed the video in less than two hours.

As the election results remain undecided on Wednesday afternoon, tech companies will continue to face the hurdle of misinformation spread on their platforms in the coming days.

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• Trump falsely claimed he won the 2020 presidential election even as votes were still being counted in key states

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