WPŁYW WOJNY NA UKRAINIE NA TRENDY PORTALU SPOŁECZNOŚCIOWEGO TIKTOK
TRENDS ON THE TIKTOK SOCIAL NETWORK AFFECTED BY WAR IN UKRAINE

Summary/Abstract: TikTok is currently one of the fastest growing social networking sites in the world, and it is gaining more and morepopularity among the youngest users. This platform, thanks to its function of adding short films, is also a tool forcreating war reports by the young, but it is also the place where we can find numerous traces of disinformation andthe impact of hybrid warfare. The article analyzes the most popular posts containing the Ukraine tag in three differentlanguages (English, Ukrainian and Russian). In the article, the author used research methods: autoethnographic, casestudy and desk research. The goal of the study was to show whether the most popular trends/posts on the TikTokportal with the hashtag “Ukraine” in three languages contain content related to the war in Ukraine, and whether thiscontent may have signs of disinformation aimed at users of this popular social networking portal for young people.The research confirmed the above theses, the most popular posts are those related to the war in Ukraine, and someof the content is untrue and has signs of disinformation.

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