TikTok rolled out viewers controls for dwell creators final 12 months, enabling them to limit their content material to viewers 18 and older, and the video creation platform mentioned final week that it was extending that choice to creators of short-form video worldwide over the approaching weeks.
The corporate mentioned in a weblog submit, “To be clear: Our insurance policies nonetheless totally apply to creators who use this function, and we’ll take away content material that incorporates nudity and different violations of our group tips. We recurrently educate creators about our insurance policies as a result of it takes a village to create an area the place everybody feels welcome and secure.”
TikTok additionally just lately joined forces with Bumble and Meta, partnering with StopNCII.org to assist cease the unfold of non-consensual intimate imagery and forestall content material recognized by way of that partnership from being posted on its platform.
The platform started introducing Content material Ranges final July as a method to stop customers between the ages of 13 and 17 with teen accounts from seeing content material containing grownup innuendo, profanity or sexually suggestive fare, and TikTok mentioned final week that the function prevented teen accounts from viewing greater than 1 million overtly sexually suggestive movies prior to now 30 days alone.
TikTok wrote in its weblog submit, “Our objective has all the time been to ensure our group, particularly teenagers on our platform, has a secure, constructive and joyful expertise after they come to TikTok. We’ve already taken vital strides to assist make sure that their feeds are filled with content material that’s acceptable for them, and these enhancements mark an vital subsequent step to fulfill that objective.”
