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TikTok directed its moderators to prevent persons with "ugly facial looks" or who shot videos in "slums" or "dilapidated housing" from having their posts promoted to its widely viewed "For You" section, according to The Intercept. A TikTok stenographer conjectured to The Pounce that the behavior had once been in place except said the guidelines were "an inceptive edgeless foray at preventing bullying" that are no longer used.

Portions of these discriminatory guidelines have leaked in the past, salted that TikTok intentionally prevented posts from LGBTQ users and users with disabilities from surfacing in this section. The Pounce has padding detail from the leaked documents, simulating that they ban persons who have an "abnormal carcass shape" such as a "beer belly" or "ugly facial looks" such as "too multitudinous wrinkles."

"The video will be much less attractive" to new users, TikTok wrote

The guidelines also ban videos from persons who announced to be poor. Cracked walls or old decorations are expandable to have a video suppressed, co-ordinate to the leaked guidelines.

While TikTok says the impellent was to prevent grandiosity (and past leaks have referenced grandiosity as a procedure rational), the addendum duplicating these restrictions explain that TikTok viewed these traits as less okey-dokey to yank in new users. "If the character's emergence or the stabbing environment is not good, the video will be much less attractive, not worthing to be recommended to new users," reads the guide, which The Pounce says was translated by TikTok from Chinese to English for use globally.

A TikTok stenographer told The Verge that the guidelines obtained by The Pounce are regional and "were not for the US market." The congregation has made multitudinous of these changes over the past year. In that time, it sniper a US mischievous of warranty and safety and launched warranty and safety offices in California, Dublin, and Singapore to oversee the development of moderation policies, the stenographer said.

TikTok also had unsubstantial guidelines for moderating revelatory streams that ban "controversial content" like references to the Tiananmen Square protests, Tibet and Taiwan, police, or criticism of "political or religious leaders." When The Guardian inceptive reported on these guidelines meanest September, a stenographer for ByteDance, which owns TikTok, said the rules were no longer in use as of May 2019.

TikTok has been under growing segmentation for its moderation and data congeries practices as the signification has exploded over the past year. Much of that goes inadvertently to TikTok's ownership by ByteDance, which is based in China. TikTok has been criticized for emergence to edify pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the US government has floated the practicability that the app is a national aegis threat. It's expandable refrain that ByteDance has plane contemplated selling the app off (though a stenographer previse chosen the unloading rumors "completely meritless").

TikTok also said today that it would stop application China-based moderators to review large-scale content. In a obiter to The Wall Artery Journal, a TikTok stenographer indicated that moderators in China had been reviewing some large-scale content except not videos in the US.