House Select Committee on China lawmakers are pressuring TikTok to explain its censorship policies and surveillance practices amid growing concerns about the China-founded app’s restrictions on content and alleged spying on users.
The lawmakers want to know about TikTok’s suspension of the Acton Institute’s account, deletion of the free market think tank’s videos and TikTok’s alleged tracking of sensitive words and people who view gay content.
“TikTok’s stock answer — that in some cases, it has reinstated content or halted a particular tracking technique — is inadequate because TikTok has never adequately explained how those censorship decisions were made in the first instance or given a complete and comprehensive explanation of how its community guidelines operate in practice,” the lawmakers wrote to TikTok in a letter.
TikTok did not previously answer The Washington Times’ questions about what caused the error that restricted content about the documentary “The Hong Konger” and it did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, operated a tool that tracked sensitive words and recorded who said it and where they were located, according to Forbes. A TikTok spokesperson told Forbes this month that the information the magazine reviewed may have been incomplete and outdated and that different policies and computer code apply for ByteDance products TikTok and Douyin, a version of TikTok used in China.
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