TikTok renews its Community Standards. These are the rules and regulations for being part of the community.
As part of this update, and for the first time, TikTok is sharing the TikTok Community Guidelines to help the community understand your decisions about how you work to keep TikTok safe and build trust in your approach. These principles are based on its commitment to the defense of human rights and conform to international legal frameworks.
These principles guide TikTok’s decisions on how to moderate content. So that they can strive to be fair in their actions, protect human dignity, and find a balance between freedom of expression and harm prevention.
Respond to new threats and potential damage
To make the most comprehensive update to its Community Guidelines to date, TikTok has consulted more than 100 organizations and community members around the world. Your input helped the platform strengthen its standards and respond to new threats and potential harm. Some of the key changes are:
- Advancing the rules on how to treat synthetic media, which is content created or modified with AI technology;
- Add “tribe” as a protected attribute in hate speech and hate behavior policies.
- More details about his work to protect civic and electoral integrity, including his approach to government, politician and political party accounts.
The new Community Rules will go into effect on April 21. In the coming months, TikTok will provide additional training to moderators to help them effectively enforce these updated rules and regulations as they begin to roll out.
TikTok has brought everything regarding the rules and standards together in one place so that everyone from creators to researchers can get what they need, based on the feedback the platform has received. The company has reviewed the way it organizes its standards into and for different subject areas (for example, Behavior and Mental Health). First of all, it briefly explains what is not allowed on the platform, to later offer more details, such as definitions and the different actions that TikTok could carry out. TikTok has also laid out the four pillars of its approach to moderation:
- Remove content that violates the Community Guidelines
- Restrict adult content so that it can only be viewed by adults (over 18 years of age). (This content must continue to comply with the Community Guidelines)
- Make content that is not appropriate for a broad audience ineligible to be recommended in the For You Feed
- Provide the community with information tools and resources to decide how they want their experience on the platform to be.
Today’s update to TikTok’s Community Guidelines also expands its enforcement strategy to:
- Share more information about the actions TikTok is taking against accounts that violate the rules, after the update earlier this yearand clarify that the platform does not allow the use of multiple accounts to intentionally circumvent the rules or their compliance.
- Explain the considerations that TikTok takes into account when applying the rules, based on the public interest, and its approach to content that criticizes public figures.
- Include more details about how TikTok uses informative labels, warnings and display options.
TikTok is proud to share these updated Community Guidelines that give the community much more transparency about the rules and how the platform enforces them. It takes a great team to keep people safe online, so the platform thanks everyone in the TikTok community and all the outside experts who have contributed and continue to help them advance their standards and stay one step ahead of the rest. emerging threats.
We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe online and that feeling safe is key to fueling and inspiring imagination and creative expression. That’s why we continue to invest in our work to keep TikTok a safe, inclusive, and authentic home for our global community, so they can create, discover, and connect.
Julie de Bailliencourt, Global Director of Product Policy at TikTok.