On February 8, TikTok updated its Community Guidelines to ensure the safety and well-being of users. It introduced several new bans, including a ban on misogyny, deadnaming, and misgendering. Together with the updated rules, the service presented a report on content moderation activities for the third quarter of 2021. The rules will go into effect within the next few weeks.
TikTok is strengthening its controls on dangerous activities and challenges. The service intends to prevent the spread of potentially dangerous content, including hoaxes about suicide and self-harm. Measures will also be tightened in relation to the promotion of malnutrition and various forms of eating disorders (EDD). TikTok is already removing content that promotes eating disorder. In the same way, the promotion of malnutrition will soon be removed.
The service did not provide an exact decoding of what is considered malnutrition. But in a press release, TikTok said it would be analyzing user content for markers, such as excessive exercise and fasting, that could hint at a problem. There are many nuances to this topic, and the platform intends to work on training moderators to increase their awareness of a wider range of content.
A separate item highlights the specification of the types of hateful behavior prohibited on the platform. In particular, TikTok banned misogyny, deadnaming and misgendering. This means that the platform has officially banned statements and actions that incite or demonstrate hatred towards women or girls, as well as a number of offensive actions against LGBT people. In particular, transgender persons cannot be called by their birth name. They should now be addressed by the name that they have designated for themselves. In addition, intentional or unintentional treatment using words that are not appropriate for the person's gender identity will be prohibited.
TikTok will open cyber incident monitoring centers in Washington, Dublin and Singapore this year, according to a press release. This should allow real-time monitoring of cyber threats and more thorough work on violations such as unauthorized access to accounts and their use for illegal activities.
In the third quarter of 2021, TikTok removed more than 91 million videos that violated the platform's Community Guidelines, according to TikTok data. This is approximately 1% of all uploaded videos. Most content (95.1%) was removed before users reported abuse, 88.8% of content was removed before at least one person saw it, and 93.9% within 24 hours of posting.
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