TikTok has proposed a world coalition of social media companies for early identification and elimination of dangerous content material, the corporate mentioned on Tuesday, as networking apps face a barrage of criticism over points starting from misinformation to knowledge privateness.
The corporate, owned by China’s ByteDance and on the middle of a political battle between Washington and Beijing, mentioned it had despatched letters to 9 firms for a memorandum of understanding on content moderation.
Particular person content material assessment efforts by every platform may be superior by a proper and collaborative method, the short-video app said.
TikTok didn’t identify the businesses it had reached out to however mentioned it had proposed a gathering between the companies to debate the matter.
The app, a relative newcomer to the social media panorama, has had fewer situations of wrestling publicly with the persistent content material moderation scandals which have dogged bigger and extra entrenched opponents like Facebook and Twitter.
Individually, TikTok said on Monday it had eliminated over 104 million movies from its platform globally within the first half of the 12 months for violating its phrases of service.
“Of these movies, we discovered and eliminated 96.four % of movies earlier than a person reported them, and 90.three % had been eliminated earlier than they acquired any views,” TikTok mentioned in its transparency report.
The corporate mentioned on Tuesday it received 1,768 requests for person knowledge, with 290, or 16.four %, of these from US legislation enforcement companies.
ByteDance has been racing to keep away from a crackdown on TikTok after being at loggerheads with the US authorities. US officers have expressed considerations that private knowledge of as many as 100 million Individuals that use the app is being handed on to China’s Communist Social gathering authorities.
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