Fact-Check: Does Tiktok give awards to users with 30GB data for 6 years commemoration?

Claiming: Tiktok gives awards to its users by subscribing to free data to celebrate its 6th birthday.

Indictment: Misleading.

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The financial advantage of using Tiktok, a social media platform that allows making and sharing videos, has attracted millions of users to the platform.

In the same reward from social platforms, a post circulating on WhatsApp claims technology companies with generous respect for tiktoker with data subscriptions.

Social media applications were launched in 2016 by the Chinese technology company Bytedance as Douyin in China. However, the International Form of Social Media Platform – Tiktok’s name – was launched in 2018.

According to the claim, each user has the opportunity to claim 30GB of data, which is presented by Tiktok to celebrate “6 years commemoration”.

This new claim was sent to the WhatsApp group with more than 140 members. Plus, attached to the post is a link to claim a prize.

Verification:

Ripples Nigeria observes that the link to claim prizes for different network providers is the same. Click on every confirmation.

The direction page is usually from the phishing site asking for a telephone number, and instructs that the link is distributed to other groups to claim prizes.

Usually, when not suspicious of social media users share a five -group link consisting of 15 friends, they don’t get anything in the end.

In addition, on the launch date of Tiktok -2018, the platform will celebrate its 7th anniversary, and not the 6th as claimed.

Besides that, Appreciate 23.84 million users in Nigeria With 30GB, the price of around N8-10K (ie $ 5-6) will greatly burden technology companies, because they spend about $ 120-144 million for data prizes. Company worth established between $ 100-200 billion.

However, further examination in the Tiktok site news room did not reveal the information. The last new article posted on May 14 and 21 is panting “Celebrating awareness of global accessibility: Building accessible and inclusive tiktok” and “Tiktok and Soundcloud announced the new music application partnership”.

Also, Riak Nigeria observed that this post circulated most of the famous WhatsApp (group) for the redistribution of the false claims.

Conclusion

Tiktok does not give awards to users with data subscriptions as claimed. The link circulating is a dangerous phishing link and must be avoided.

By: Quadri Yahya