Here’s how far-right extremists hide in TikTok’s earworms

Far-right extremists are exploiting TikTok’s “use-this-sound” feature as a Trojan horse for hate speech, with most of the offending videos staying online for months, according to new research published in arXiv, Cornell University’s preprint server.

Marloes Geboers of the University of Amsterdam and Marcus Bösch at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf scraped thousands of clips from German, British, and Dutch TikTok feeds. They found that over three-quarters of videos using extremist...