Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong
Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
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Discussion
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@wongmjane
Jane Manchun Wong
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If continue promoting your cheerful fun videos on TikTok and ignore it's censorship on human rights violation, you become the enabler of the human rights violation and you have blood on your hands https://www.bbc.com/...
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@aaronzlewis
@aaronzlewis
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the feedback loop between TikTok's constraints and the type of music that gets produced — it's kinda like how innovations in cathedral architecture changed choral music in medieval times. memes reshape music in their image https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@drewledrew
@drewledrew
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Oh man, @jiatolentino on TikTok @NewYorker — it's like we're living in the world's slowest-moving sci-fi novel, & it doesn't end well: http://www.newyorker.com/...
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@alexhern
Alex Hern
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SCOOP: We've got TikTok's moderation guidelines, which lay out exactly how the social network exports Chinese censorship: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@charlesrollet1
Charles Rollet
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TikTok - by far the world's biggest new social media app - “censors videos that do not please Beijing”, according to internal documents obtained by @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@elliottzaagman
Elliott Zaagman
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A few thoughts on the leaked internal docs showing that Bytedance censors TikTok internationally in line with Beijing's agenda: 1/ https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@elinor_carmi
@elinor_carmi
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TikTok (Chinese-owned) instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, & more. Content moderators make important decisions that have political & social implication. They decide on how ppl engage with news. https://www.theguardian.com…
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@neerajka
Neeraj K. Agrawal
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CC: anyone who uses wechat pay as an example of a sufficient payment system “How TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@charlesarthur
Charles Arthur
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Top scoop by Alex here. And very important: as Chinese apps become more widely used in the west, it's important to know what they're hiding from us. https://twitter.com/...
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@elliottzaagman
Elliott Zaagman
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Leaked documents provide insight into why we don't see so few Hong Kong protest-related videos on TikTok: The guidelines divide banned material into two categories: some content is marked as a “violation”, which sees it deleted from the site entirely 1/ https://www.theguardian.co…
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@alexhern
Alex Hern
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Oh and here's an odd thing: in its rules around “underage pornography”, TikTok explicitly erred on the side of risk, instructing moderators to treat users as though they were over 18 if there was uncertainty about their age. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@profcarroll
David Carroll
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TikTok is an extension of an authoritarian regime despite PR spin. It's an inconvenient truth about something so amazingly fun. https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@michellebee
Michelle Broderick
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What do scrunchies, the deep state, and very good dogs have to do with one another? My favorite writer digs into my favorite social network and ruins everything in the best way possible. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@niemanlab
@niemanlab
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“In five minutes, the app had sandblasted my cognitive matter with twenty TikToks that had the legibility and logic of a narcoleptic dream.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@terri_rupar
Terri Rupar
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This @jiatolentino TikTok story is delightful and also a little scary and there are things happening that are hard to understand and I kept going though I meant to just look at it for a minute so ... basically like TikTok https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@newyorker
@newyorker
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Read more about how TikTok and its massive, China-based parent company, ByteDance, is pushing the bounds of A.I. and facial-recognition technology, to undetermined ends. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@jjding99
Jeffrey Ding
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This sentence in @jiatolentino excellent profile of TikTok is just so precise, “Before one girl could finish asking a TikToker to make a video saying hi to her friend Adrianne, the TikToker was halfway through a video saying hi to her friend Adrianne.” https://www.newyorker.com/.…