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Online Trolls Allegedly Abused TikTok’s Automated Content Reporting System to Discriminate against Marginalized Creators
- Occurred
- Dec 15, 2020
- Published
- Dec 15, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
TikTok's automated content reporting system was allegedly abused by online trolls to intentionally misreport content created by users of marginalized groups.
Developers
- TikTok
Deployers
- TikTok
Harmed parties
- TikTok content creators of marginalized groups
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Automated system abuse targeting marginalized creators constitutes discrimination and disparate impact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8