It’s a big day for TikTok news. Under pressure from regulators and campaigning groups around the world, the company has announced the latest changes that it’s making to make its experience more positive for users. Or as it puts it: so they can “continue to have a safe and entertaining experience on TikTok”.
The changes include a tool for filtering out videos with certain words or hashtags from the app’s ‘For You’ and ‘Following’ feeds, and an algorithmic tweak to stop TikTok “recommending a series of similar content on topics that may be fine as a single video but potentially problematic if viewed repeatedly, such as topics related to dieting, extreme fitness, sadness, and other well-being topics”.
Finally, TikTok is developing its own film and games-style age ratings system “to organise content based on thematic maturity” – with maturity scores used to block videos deemed unsuitable for 13-17 year-olds from being watched by those teenagers.
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