User:Kassandras1029/Censorship on TikTok


 * 1) On 6 July 2021, 23-year-old TikTok content creator, Ziggi Tyler, posted a video of himself editing his Creator Marketplace bio. After several attempts to change his bio, he noticed that phrases such as “supporting Black Lives Matter,” “supporting Black voices,” “pro-Black,” “supporting Black success,” and “I am a Black man” were marked as “inappropriate content.” Although, when he tried adding phrases including “I am a neo nazi,” “I am anti-Semitic,” “pro-White,” and “I am a White man” they were deemed appropriate by the platform. In response to this “significant error,” a TikTok spokesperson spoke to Insider and expressed “Our TikTok Creator Marketplace protections, which flag phrases typically associated with hate speech, were erroneously set to flag phrases without respect to word order. We recognize and apologize for how frustrating this was to experience, and our team is working quickly to fix this significant error.”
 * 2) In April 2021, TikTok introduced a new feature that detects and automatically transcribes what video creators say. This new feature is a result of an increase in demand for facilitated accessibility of the application to users who are deaf or hard of hearing. Three weeks after its release, TikTok users took notice of the captions censoring the phrase “Asian women,” which appeared as “A**** w****.”  Yet, phrases such as “White men,” “White women,” “Black men,” “Black women,” and “Asian men” remained uncensored. According to TikTok, the issue was resolved shortly after being revealed to them. “We care deeply about supporting and elevating underrepresented groups on TikTok and worked quickly to resolve this error,” added a TikTok spokesperson.