Social media app TikTok mentioned on Thursday it eliminated greater than 49 million movies from its platform within the second half of final yr for violating its pointers.
These movies accounted for lower than 1 p.c of the overall posted on the platform and fell beneath classes corresponding to “violent and graphic content, hate speech and adult nudity”, it mentioned in a report launched on its web site.
About one-third of the movies had been from India, adopted by the United States, and Pakistan, it added.
The transparency report comes days after the corporate owned by China’s ByteDance was banned from India, certainly one of its greatest markets, after a Sino-India border conflict. The short-form video making app additionally decided to exit the Hong Kong market following China’s institution of a sweeping new nationwide safety legislation for the semi-autonomous metropolis.
TikTok launched a new platform to courtroom small enterprise advertisers on Wednesday. The platform, nevertheless, was fraught with challenges, particularly after the Trump administration’s menace this week to impose a ban on China-based social media apps.
© Thomson Reuters 2020
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