TikTok ‘s parent company includes terms referencing the Uyghur genocide, former President Donald Trump, and China in a list it uses for content regulations, further blurring the lines around how Chinese restrictions on speech are applied to the content on apps owned by the corporation outside of China.
The China-owned ByteDance maintained several lists of words it tracks on its various apps for content moderation purposes. Terms on the list make it appear that they apply to TikTok’s algorithm and content, although the company denies such claims.
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While similar lists are often used on other social media platforms to monitor more questionable content such as child pornography or abusive content, lists found in the ByteDance moderation tool include politically relevant “sensitive words” for the
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