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TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders
Videos promoting eating disorders evaded TikTok's automated violation detection system without difficulty via common misspellings of search terms, bypassing its ban of violating hashtags such as "proana" and "anorexia".
- Date it happened
- 2020-12-27
- Organisation involved
- TikTok
- Product, system or model
- Content moderation system that should identify and remove pro eating disorder content from the app, and identify related search terms to direct users to help pages.
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