After Facing Discrimination on Tik Tok, These Content Creators Created Their Own eCommunity Here s Why
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Here are the five biggest claims to come from the report.
1. TikTok’s Algorithm Can Promote Misinformation And Dangerous Content, Including Eating Disorders
“It takes less than 30 seconds to find harmful content on TikTok, and a few hours for the algorithm to dominate someone’s feed with offensive videos, according to several researchers,” the
Four Corners report claimed.
The report referenced tech advocacy organisation Reset Australia, citing their experiments that discovered it “takes about four hours for the algorithm to learn that a 13-year-old is interested in racist content, and about seven hours for sexist videos to swamp someone’s feed.”