News investigations have nevertheless revealed that TikTok is used by Islamic State militants and to promote neo-Nazism. TikTok’s guidelines state that the platform will remove content from terrorist or criminal organizations and individuals who “attack people based on protected characteristics” such as race, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation, and that: “We consider attacks to include actions that incite violence or hatred, dehumanize individuals or groups, or embrace a hateful ideology.” O’Connor said that it is difficult for researchers to do large-scale searches of TikTok content so he used a “snowball methodology” - manually searching 157 keywords that led to accounts sharing far-right views, then looking at the accounts to which they were linked - to settle on the sample of 1,030 videos that seemingly violated TikTok’s community guidelines. The study concludes there is an “enforcement gap” at TikTok and O’Connor hopes the findings will “start a conversation about the access or lack of access that researchers have when it comes to evaluating and examining hate at scale” on the platform. ISD researcher Ciaran O’Connor called the report a first-of-its-kind examination of how TikTok is used to spread white supremacy, neo-Nazism or other forms of hate speech. The 19th was given a preview of the study’s misogyny-related components ahead of the report’s release on Tuesday by ISD, a nonprofit organization of researchers and policy experts that tracks extremism online and makes recommendations to governments and businesses in the United States and overseas. ![]() Videos with anti-LGBTQ+ content celebrated the persecution of gay people by authoritarian regimes and the suicides of transgender people. Some praised the mass shooter Elliot Rodger, who in 2014 killed six people near a California college campus and circulated a video and written manifesto saying that the attack was related to his hatred of women. Other videos used a white supremacist term to criticize women in mixed-race relationships. Multiple videos in the sample were linked to the “Men Going Their Own Way” movement, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has categorized as a male supremacist group. The TikTok content shows how white supremacist movements are often layered with elements of misogyny and anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes. At least 58 videos included misogynist content and 90 had anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments, ISD found. At least 312 of those videos promoted white supremacy and 246 expressed support for organizations or individuals known to be extremists or terrorists. Researchers identified a sample of 1,030 videos from 491 accounts, or about eight hours of content, that seemingly violated TikTok’s community guidelines. The ISD report examines how extremists use profiles, hashtags, music and other effects on TikTok. ![]() ![]() Violent extremists, neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups are able to easily spread racist, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ+ content on TikTok that runs afoul of the social media platform’s own terms of service, according to new research by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). This article was originally published by The 19th on August 24, 2021.
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