TikTok moderators were ordered by their bosses to suppress videos made by users that the Chinese video platform regarded as "poor," "unattractive," and "disabled," and made concerted efforts to censor political speech deemed anti-government, according to a report in The Intercept.
Entries to TikTok's "For You" page, a landing page that attracts many views from the platform's 800 million users, were screened and filtered to specific criteria.
Internal documents obtained by The Intercept show moderators instructed to review videos for "low quality" traits such as “abnormal body shape,” “ugly facial looks,” "dwarfism," and others.
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