TikTok 'Tried To Filter Out Videos From Ugly, Poor Or Disabled Users'

[Kinguno]

Curb is the predicted it

 

[Phitz]

I think I seen this on a Black Mirror episode






Even these social media apps on that

only want the best and wealthy looking

guess you meant wealthy and best looking

 

[froggle]

Renegade, Renegade, Renegade (does Tik Tok routine)

 

[Tom Foolery]

TikTok is wack.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

TikTok 'Tried To Filter Out Videos From Ugly, Poor Or Disabled Users'


TikTok moderators were told to suppress videos from users who appeared too ugly, poor or disabled, as part of the company's efforts to curate an aspirational air in the videos it promotes, according to new documents published by the Intercept. From a report:

The documents detail how moderators for the social video app were instructed to select content for the influential "For You" feed, an algorithmic timeline that is most users' first port of call when they open the app. As a result, being selected for For You can drive huge numbers of views to a given video, but the selection criteria have always remained a secret, with little understanding as to the amount of automation involved. TikTok's moderators were instructed to exclude videos from the For You feed if they failed on any one of a number of categories, the documents show. Users with an "abnormal body shape (not limited to: dwarf, acromegaly)," who are "chubby ... obese or too thin" or who have "ugly facial looks or facial deformities" should be removed, one document says, since "if the character's appearance is not good, the video will be much less attractive, not worthing [sic] to be recommended to new users."

Similarly, the documents show, videos were to be removed from the feed if "the shooting environment is shabby and dilapidated," since "this kind of environment is ... less fancy and appealing." A TikTok spokesperson said the goal was to prevent bullying on the platform, tying the document to a report from December that showed that the company was suppressing vulnerable users' videos in a misguided effort to prevent them from becoming the centre of attention that could turn sour. The categories of video suppressed in the latest document are far broader than those revealed in December, however, nor is any mention of bullying, a discrepancy the company attributes to a local interpretation of the wider policy.

let me know when this hit topclassactions...

so i can get in on that settlement...i have disablity..

 

[Mastamimd]

Renegade, Renegade, Renegade (does Tik Tok routine)

I fukking hate that song, but it represents so much

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

How us were they supposed to get the app off the ground? Isn't IG fueled by pretty women and celebs?

 

[Nymbus]

ban all children from tiktok
adults too

 

[Cladyclad]

Sometimes people speak how they feel without knowing

black people are not the only ones ugly, poor, or disable.

so why even mention that ijs

 

[KillerB88]

We all know who this is really after..

Who?

 

[GreenGrass]

TikTok is wack.

sometimes its better than instagram. the cooking videos they have on tik tok are amazing.

 

[Theyeboah]

Sometimes people speak how they feel without knowing

black people are not the only ones ugly, poor, or disable.

so why even mention that ijs

They are infinitely more ugly white people than black peeps. And Asian kids don't even look right half the time but let them cook with their opinions.

 

[Uno Venova]

Makes sense, I checked it out once and it's literally all bright eyed blonde girls & other attractive types in big ass LA/Texas homes.

 

[Auger]

Sometimes people speak how they feel without knowing

black people are not the only ones ugly, poor, or disable.

so why even mention that ijs

Ugly is subjective and can change from culture to culture, and time period. What others may deem attractive, another might see as unattractive. Who gets to decide what that baseline is universally?

 

[Da King]

Not trying to see ugly people on my phone