Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine

Covid misinformation remains on site for months adding to concern over impact of social media on young people

Lies and conspiracy theories about Covid-19, which have amassed millions of views and are accessible to young children, have been available on the social media platform TikTok for months.

TikTok accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers that discourage vaccination and peddle myths about Covid survival rates were uncovered by NewsGuard, an organisation that monitors online misinformation.