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TikTok censoring LGBTQ+ issues, Uighur crackdown: report – Sydney Morning Herald
A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found the video platform was a “powerful political actor with global reach” that censored topics and actively demoted and suppressed content to make it harder to find.
TikTok, which features 15-second videos of users lip-syncing and dancing, has come under criticism for a lack of transparency over the algorithms it uses to decide which videos are given precedence.
The ASPI report found hashtags on TikTok related to LGBTQ+ issues were suppressed on theplatform in at least eight languages.
“This blunt approach to censorship affects not only citizens of a particular country, but all users speaking those languages, no matter where in the world they live,” the re…
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