TikTok is one of the most embraced platforms for youngsters worldwide. But recently it has taken myriad actionable steps due to the controversy that the platform has plunged itself into where users reproached it of censoring hashtags ‘George Floyd’ and ‘Black lives matter’. TikTok has laid out recently a series of actions to accept the purpose of criticisms that its recommendation algorithm inhibits black creators.
What are the actions that TikTok has taken?
TikTok has taken innumerable necessary steps to include commencing a ‘creator diversity council’ targeted to ‘recognizing and promoting the voices leading culture, necessary conversations, and creativity on the platform’. This is jotting down by TikTok in their blog post. TikTok has clarified that it will also modify its strategies, uplift a brand-new creator portal for enlarging communications, boost up a new ‘user-friendly’ and intuitive appeals process, and finally the ‘leading opportunities for our capacious creator community’.
TikTok has anticipated that ‘they will stand in mobilization abreast of Black community’ on Tuesday by significantly partaking in “Blackout Tuesday”, a leading day of operation against the music industry for the racial inequity. TikTok uttered that it will concatenate its sounds page, shut down all the playlists, and striving “to notice the consequences of action and its reflection”. This music platform plighted a total of $4 million in donations to demonstrate the racial misjudgment and to help the black community.
What has TikTok done for the Black community?
TikTok has acclaimed in its blog post that it was clearly a ‘display problem’ and ‘technical malfunction’ that made it look like the posts uploaded using #GeorgeFloyd and #BlackLivesMatter got zero views. But now, these videos with these robust hashtags got over 2 billion views. In this context, TikTok has said that ‘We know that there are many assumptions to subdue the racism and invalidate the onerous emotions felt by the black community. And we need to work hard to do to retain and regenerate the faith’, states the post.
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TikTok has significantly pledged for the justice of Black people out there and they said, ‘We applaud being held responsible. We understand that reaching a certain place of faith will require hard work, but we are immensely committed to doing out a leading role as we are continuing to upbringing space where everyone is seen and equally heard’, the company jots down. To retain the justice for the black community, TikTok users started changing their profile pictures to the black background to clinch the black symbol. Not only this but also TikTok users unfollow those users who are not supporting the black community justice and they solicit the non-black allies to follow one new black creator,according to CNN.
On Friday, for the immense justice, TikTok has emerged to restrict the search result for hashtags like #acab. Thereafter, users were unable to find those protest videos by using those tags. In December, TikTok has made it obvious that it subdued videos by queer, disabled, and fat creators. According to Slate, the censored videos of TikTok deemed to be the “Vincible to cyberbullying”. Not only these videos have got inhibited, but also the users with birthmarks, autism, or mild squints had their videos suppressed as well.
Well, several series of actions were released by TikTok in order to ennoble the reputation of the black community and it has undergone myriad issues while taking these actions. The user’s videos got subdued and also the users with DownSyndrome. Racial injustice and inequality have outspread into our society and people from the black community are the worst sufferers.
