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TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders
- Occurred
- Dec 27, 2020
- Published
- Dec 27, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Videos promoting eating disorders evaded TikTok's automated violation detection system without difficulty via common misspellings of search terms, bypassing its ban of violating hashtags such as "proana" and "anorexia".
Developers
- TikTok
Deployers
- TikTok
Harmed parties
- TikTok users
- TikTok users under 18 years old
Classification
Category confidence: 75%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Content moderation failure allowing harmful content to spread, impacting vulnerable users.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8