A NewsGuard investigation found that TikTok's users, who are predominantly teens and young adults, are consistently fed false and misleading claims when they search on TikTok for information about prominent news topics.The toxicity of TikTok has become a significant threat because new research from Google suggests that TikTok is increasingly being used by young people as a search engine, as they turn to the video-sharing platform, instead of Google, to find information.TikTok—whose library of user-generated videos can be easily searched by typing in keywords in its search bar—repeatedly delivered videos containing false claims in the first 20 results, often within the first five.Google, by comparison, provided higher-quality and less-polarizing results, with far less misinformation.NewsGuard analyzed 540 TikTok results, based on reviewing the top 20 results from 27 searches on news topics."