The social network Tik Tok Now it comes to toughen its rules of use in Europe. More specifically, when upgrading your Community Principles therefore, it intends to reinforce the safety of the community and promote a more responsible use.
As stated by the Chinese social network itself, based on the defense of human rights and in line with international legal frameworks, TikTok has updated its Community Guidelines. Now, it is necessary to know exactly what changes.
Gradual but Significant Changes to the TikTok Community Guidelines
The novelties are reflected in the field of content moderation, the protection of the dignity of its creators and the establishment of a compromise between freedom of expression and security. April, the 21st.
Over the next few months, all content moderators on the platform will receive additional information to effectively apply each of these rules and regulations. This as they are applied. According to each subject area, they restructured the way they organize the rules on TikTok.
This is the new tripartite position of TikTok
In this sense, the community will have access to all the rules and details of each one of them. Therefore, know your settings and permissions. Four pillars of the moderation approach were also defined:
- remove violent content
- Restrict age-restricted content to adult viewing only (this must also adhere to the Community Guidelines)
- Make content ineligible for recommendation in the For You feed that is inappropriate for a broad audience;
- Provide our community with tools and information resources that allow them to maintain full control of their experience.
The social platform redefines some of its Community Principles
TikTok reached out to more than 100 organizations around the world and community members to strengthen the response to threats and potential harm. This information will be made available to any user.
By the way, some of the changes in the Community Principles were:
- New rules on how they treat content producers that use Artificial Intelligence, such as Bots
- Strengthen the sense of ‘tribe’ as a protective attribute against hateful policies and hateful conduct;
- Details about the work to protect civic and electoral integrity, including the treatment of government accounts, politics, and political parties.
The Community Guidelines update also extends to law enforcement strategy:
- exchange More information on decisions regarding accounts that violate the rules and clarifying that they do not allow the use of multiple accounts. This is to intentionally circumvent our rules or their application.
- Explain the considerations we take into account when applying our standards based on the public interest.
- Including more details on how they use informative labels, warnings and call to action.
In short, TikTok aims to gradually appease the European legislator, while introducing some form of content moderation on its platform. It is indeed a start, a first step towards a more mature social platform.
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