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It all started on Sunday when a video shared live via Facebook, showing a man apparently committing suicide, migrated to the social network TikTok.
The sensitive content of the images, which violates the platform’s policies, caused computer systems to identify the video immediately, a TikTok spokesperson told Forbes.
“Our systems have automatically detected the video, for violating our policy against content that displays, praises, glorifies or promotes suicide,” adding that the platform is “banning accounts that repeatedly attempt” to put the video on TikTok.
However, despite TikTok’s efforts to ensure that images do not reach more people, several users continue to report image sharing using the “For You” algorithm.
To these users, TikTok wishes to thank:
We thank the members of our community who denounced the content and warned the rest of the users not to see, participate or share this type of video on any other platform, out of respect for the individual and their family ”.
One-third of users in the US in July were 14 years old or younger
The data revealed by TikTok, for the month of July, and analyzed by The New York Times, show that “more than a third of the 49 million daily users of the application in the United States -during the month of July- were 14 years old. or even less. ” and the “minimum age” allowed is 13 years.
This figure is around the “18 million” of users of 14 years or less.
TikTok: a battle in the war between the United States and China
The social network TikTok is accused by the Donald Trump administration of spying on and collecting data from American users.
The US president, who plans to ban the app in the country, has set a deadline for the platform to trade its shares with US companies.
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