Major social media and technology platforms purged millions of hoax posts in the run-up to last month’s elections in Indonesia, the country’s minister of communication and information technology said on Tuesday.
TikTok led the charge by eliminating 10.8 million posts, and Google, which owns video sharing platform YouTube, removed around 2 million beginning on July 17, 2023, minister Budi Arie Setiadi said, adding the companies acted voluntarily.
On its own, his ministry identified 3,235 posts as hoaxes and successfully directed platforms to remove…
