TikTok now starts removing ISIS propaganda accounts

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TikTok now starts removing ISIS propaganda accounts

Now, TikTok starts removing ISIS propaganda accounts. It removes two dozen accounts used for ISIS propaganda. Alongside high school dance videos and pranks, extremist propaganda has been lurking on TikTok.


TikTok has removed nearly two dozen accounts responsible for posting ISIS propaganda videos, as per first reported. The videos reportedly presented armed ISIS militants, corpses and women proclaiming to be jihadist and proud.


Reported in the verge, TikTok removes to does nice as propaganda accounts that Islamic state propagandists are reportedly trying to exploit social media optic stalkers are recruiting to.


The posts come on the heels of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria, a time when the so called Islamic State may look to bolster its strength in the region.


The Wall Street Journal says social media monitoring agency story ful recently identified around two does nice is related accounts.


All of which have since been removed the accounts posted videos aimed at recruiting followers and bolstering support for the terrorist group featuring Islamic state anthems and footage of corpses and ISIS fighters it's not clear how bigger presents ISIS has on TikTok.


Terrorist propaganda is a perennial issue for social media platforms companies like Facebook and Google share a database of known terrorist imagery that can be automatically removed when it's detected online. They've also faced and won several lawsuits for allowing it even temporarily on their platforms.


Facebook said in September that it removed more than 26 million pieces of global terrorist propaganda over the past two years.


Extremist content is the latest challenge facing TikTok, which made headlines last week after lawmakers and competitors accused the app, which is owned by Beijing based Bytedance, of censoring content on behalf of the Chinese government.


The app has exploded in popularity across the U.S. over the past few months, particularly among teens.


TikTok's parent company Byte Dance didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about how much terrorist content TikTok finds and takes down the accounts that story full identified also appear to be relatively small the journal identifies.


The presence of extremist content on the app may land TikTok in more hot water in Washington, D.C., where some lawmakers are already calling for investigation of the company over censorship concerns. While TikTok moved quickly to ban the extremist accounts after they were flagged to the company, one video as earning 68 likes and some accounts as having around 1,000 followers. Storyful didn't immediately confirm whether that's typical of the accounts popularity or whether these are the first accounts they've found on TikTok.


TikTok videos circulate largely thanks to TikTok's recommendation algorithm, and in this case, it's not clear that the algorithm is promoting ISIS content - just that this content exists on the hugely popular platform however as the journal notes.


A TikTok spokesperson said in a statement,

"Content promoting terrorist organizations has absolutely no place on TikTok. We permanently ban any such accounts and associated devices as soon as identified, and we continuously develop ever stronger controls to proactively detect suspicious activity.

This is an industry wide challenge complicated by bad actors who actively seek to circumvent protective measures, but we have a team dedicated to aggressively protecting against malicious behavior on TikTok."

TikTok and x27's rules explicitly prohibit criminal organizations from using the app, but the company says enforcement of such guidelines is a problem that all social media companies face.


A TikTok spokesperson said none of the videos had more than double digit views. Popular TikTok videos can rack up tens or hundreds of thousands of views.


TikTok has a young user base and is known for light-hearted joke. Why content sometimes to the point of alleged political censorship, so there's an added incongruity when it's used by terrorists.


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