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TikTok did not specify the video, but at least two media reports
https://www.theverge.com/
2020/9/7/21426176/tiktok-suicide-video-remove-ban-community-warnings-creators
said that videos of a man shooting himself with a gun had been
circulating on TikTok since Sunday night.
"We're aware that clips of a suicide that was livestreamed on
Facebook have recently circulated on other platforms, including
TikTok. Our systems have been automatically detecting and
flagging these clips for violating our Community Guidelines,"
TikTok said on Twitter.
TikTok did not immediately respond to a Reuters request to
specify the video clip that it removed. Facebook did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.
TikTok, whose China-based owner Bytedance has been ordered by
President Donald Trump to sell its U.S. operations, has been
criticized for its content moderation policy in the past,
especially on circulation of graphic content.
The company rolled out a new content moderation infrastructure
in December under which it labeled the videos that were removed
by the company with the policy category they violated, it said
in its transparency report published in July.
(Reporting by Aakriti Bhalla in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb
Chakrabarty)
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