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TikTok seeks to curb misinformation during the Israel-Hamas war
Following other social media platforms in recent times, TikTok is announcing its plans to curb misinformation during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. This will help give users the correct information from reliable sources on the events unfolding during the conflict. With their new eight-point agenda, the social media service provider aims to protect their users from misinformation during these times. In an aim to tackle misinformation and uphold TikTok’s community guidelines, the company is launching a new command center. With this new command center, the platform will be able to monitor and curb any post spreading misinformation during this period. They are also improving their proactive automated detection systems to help identify new threats such as graphic and violent content. To better monitor events surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict, TikTok is hiring “moderators who speak Arabic and Hebrew to review content related to these events.” Other majors include the new opt-screens, and corporations with government agencies and experts, to mention a few. With these guidelines in place, TikTok is confident that it’ll be able to curb misinformation during the Israel-Hamas conflict. You should start seeing the new improvements to TikTok on your app and they’ll help curb misinformation, hence keeping you safe. A few days ago , Elon Musk was called out by the EU for the way his social media platform handles the Israel-Hamas conflict. Following this, X gave a comprehensive rundown of how it is fighting misinformation during this period. After the EU’s encounter with X, other social media platforms have had to increase their efforts to keep users safe from misinformation. TikTok is now the next in line to make its plans to curb misinformation public. Its fight against misinformation on the Israel-Hamas conflict will lead to removing violent content and accounts. This is one of the areas TikTok is stepping up in this fight against misinformation. Another area where users will be able to spot TikTok’s efforts to curb misinformation will reflect while they scroll through videos. TikTok is now adding an opt-in screen that’ll display graphically shocking content. Users can opt in and view such content or continue their scrolling in search of more uplifting videos. The ByteDance-owned platform claims to have taken down over 500,000 videos displaying violent content from this conflict. They go on to claim that over 8,000 live streams were closed over misinformation concerns. Aside from these features and achievements, TikTok is also reminding users of other ways they can protect themselves from misinformation. Users can rely on the report content feature to help the platform track down misleading posts. With this feature, TikTok says that it can help keep misinformation away from users on the platform. In your everyday usage of your TikTok app, you might come across some of these protective features.
Publish Date : 2023-10-16 23:50:09
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