Tiktok’s scores fell from 4.5 to 1.2 in a single day however now they’re again to 4.4 | Image credit score: Twitter
Indians began downvoting TikTok Google Play Store after an acid assault video went viral on the video-sharing platform earlier in May.
- News18.com
- Last Updated: May 29, 2020, 12:51 PM IST
Inching again towards its former place of glory, video-sharing app TikTok has managed to enhance its scores on Google Play Store and is now rated 4.4. The spike comes after final week’s fall from grace when the app’s ranking went all the way down to 1.2 after outrage towards misogynistic and violent content material on the platform.
Days after the app’s scores have been decreased to 1.2, the video-sharing app appears to be gaining again its popularity on the app retailer, because of Google which has been cleansing out dangerous critiques from the shop. In the previous week, Google has taken down almost 80 lakh one star scores towards TikTok from the shop.
Owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance, TikTok bumped into hassle after a video by an influencer referred to as Faizal Siddiqui on the platform by which he pretended to throw acid a girl’s face after she rejected his advances went viral. Indians from all components of the nation together with activists resembling Laxmi Agarwal who impressed the Bollywood movie Chhapaak in addition to the National Commission for Women spoke out towards the platform.
Following the outrage, a number of TikTok customers deleted the app and customers, in addition to different influencers, began downvoting the app on Google Play Store. Even as requires banning TikTok floated on social media, the video-sharing app’s scores went by means of the mud with 1000’s of 1-star scores.
The video put the highlight on a whole lot of such movies that promoted violence towards ladies, sexual harassment, and abuse and raised questions on TikTok’s editorial insurance policies with regard to content material being shared on it.
Why is Google eradicating one-star critiques?
Google’s transfer to assist revive the app’s scores are in step with its insurance policies regarding consumer critiques. The firm doesn’t enable customers to put up the identical assessment from totally different accounts so as to spam the assessment part on app retailer or with the intention to govern an app’s scores.
It additionally doesn’t enable political commentary for use to justify scores or give critiques. With the coronavirus outbreak which originated from Wuhan in China, a number of customers have been citing its Chinese origins as the explanation why they’re downvoting the app, and others ought to too.
Many on social media, nevertheless, have raised considerations and outrage towards Google’s shadow cleansing of almost eight million critiques.
INDIA: Google has deleted almost eight million detrimental TikTok critiques over the past days, thus the ranking rose from 1.2 to 4.Four stars. pic.twitter.com/NZ3DrFA2Sk
— Norbert Elekes (@NorbertElekes) May 28, 2020
I assumed google play retailer as a impartial physique.
But it’s very biased for #TikTok . The onerous work performed by the indian have been almost about 7M detrimental critiques have been deleted by play retailer. We mustn’t cease the reviewing go, once more assessment it as 1.
Lets see play retailer or man energy pic.twitter.com/5w2uW0XTWz
— abhishek mishra (@Abhishek_0513) May 28, 2020
Correct!!! Even my assessment was deleted. I reviewed detrimental once more. Google is also taking part in video games it appears.
— Abhay Erulkar (@AbhayErulkar) May 28, 2020
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