TikTok's Review Mechanisms and Policies in Singapore's TAC

TapTechNews August 8th news, according to foreign media soyacincau's report on August 6th, the media visited TikTok's Transparency and Accountability Center (TAC) in Singapore, showing some of the review mechanisms of the global popular short-video platform.

In order to ensure platform safety, TikTok currently has more than 40,000 reviewers worldwide, managing content in more than 70 languages. These content reviewers are scattered in different markets and have specific teams that understand the local and legal backgrounds of different countries.

The transparency report shows that the distribution of Asian languages in the TikTok team is quite large. 8.3% of the reviewers are responsible for Indonesian, 4.7% for Vietnamese, 3.9% for Thai, 2.9% for Malay, 2.8% for Filipino and 2.3% for Japanese.

TapTechNews learned from the report that every uploaded content will go through TikTok's automatic review technology, which uses various techniques covering content such as vision, audio, title, description and keywords. If the system determines that the content violates the community guidelines, it will be automatically deleted.

However, in some cases, if the degree of violation is not clear, the automatic review system will pass the content to human reviewers for a secondary review.

According to TikTok's data, 0.9% of all videos uploaded globally are deleted, and 97.7% of them are proactively deleted. Therefore, a large amount of inappropriate content is deleted before being reported.

If the content is wrongly marked as violating the rules, the user can file an appeal, and then the appeal will send the problematic content back to the reviewer and decide whether to allow it to be re-listed.

In terms of intercepting fraudulent ads, according to TikTok, they have 3 levels of review in the advertising aspect. All ads are reviewed according to community guidelines, advertising policies and creative policies. There is an admission process before allowing an account to start an advertising campaign, and more information is required to prove that the advertiser is of good reputation.

In the aspect of AI regulation, TikTok does not allow artificial intelligence generated content (AGC) to describe false authoritative sources or crisis events. The platform also prohibits AGC for any real or fictional person on its platform.