There are electoral laws that state how political advertising can be done, and how it can be funded for an election campaign. Social media companies have to ad

There are electoral laws that state how political advertising can be done, and how it can be funded for an election campaign. Social media companies have to adhere to these laws - for example to say when something is an "Ad" paid by someone for the benefit of the candidate. In this case, apparently although TikTok was notified that a bot network controlled and paid for by nobody-knows-who was spamming election ads (untagged as such), and they ignored everything. This is all illegal.