Misogyny And White Supremacy Slip Through ‘Enforcement Gap’ On TikTok
TECHNOLOGY
A new report shows how extremists use profiles, hashtags and other effects that violate the platform’s community guidelines.
Amanda Becker
Originally published by The 19th
This article has been updated.
Violent extremists, neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups are able to easily spread racist, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ+ content on TikTok that runs afoul of the social media platform’s own terms of service, according to new research by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).
The ISD report examines how extremists use profiles, hashtags, music and other effects on TikTok. Researchers identified a sample of 1,030 videos from 491 accounts, or about eight hours of content, that seemingly violated TikTok’s community guidelines. At least 312 of those videos promoted...