REUTERS: TikTok, a short-form video app, announced on Wednesday that it had removed roughly 62 million videos from its platform for breaking its guidelines in the first three months of the year, as part of an effort to address security and privacy issues. These videos made up fewer than 1% of all videos on the platform and were categorized as “adult nudity and sexual acts, harassment and bullying, and hateful behavior,” according to a study published on the company’s website https://bit.ly/3y9kPNX.
According to TikTok, which is controlled by China’s ByteDance, about 8.5 million removals were made from the United States.
Since 2019, the firm has published transparency reports after its platform, which is extremely popular among teens, was criticized for content and privacy issues, leading to the app’s suspension in various countries.
To increase openness, TikTok, which has been beefing up its security and privacy measures to keep users, built a content moderation center at its Los Angeles office last year.
(Bengaluru-based reporter Eva Mathews contributed to this report; Vinay Dwivedi edited it.)/n
