The group's Oct. 21 press release on its report, headlined "Facebook and TikTok fail to block deceptive ads with blatant US midterms disinformation," claimed its "experiment" was engineered to "determine how well social media platforms are living up to their promises to stop disinformation that can destabilise democratic processes."

Soros' Open Society Foundations gave Global Witness $17,657,000 between 2016 and 2020 alone. The group has offices in London, Brussels and Washington D.C.

The group complained that TikTok "approved 90 percent of ads featuring misleading and false election disinformation" while Facebook allegedly "approved a significant number of similarly inaccurate and false ads." Global Witness Senior Advisor John Lloyd tried to drum up fear about a supposed threat to "democracy" if Big Tech companies didn't up the ante on their censorship operations:

"It is high time they got their houses in order and started properly resourcing the detection and prevention of disinformation, before it's too late. Our democracy rests on their willingness to act."