SINGAPORE - While much work has been done to detect disinformation or misinformation, reeling it in is increasingly difficult, especially with the proliferation of short-video apps such as TikTok.

While using technology such as artificial intelligence is possible when scanning sites like Twitter, which comprises mostly text-based posts, these techniques are not as effective for the short-video format, Wikimedia Foundation disinformation manager Abhas Tripathi told The Straits Times.