How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work

Re:How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work by Nextgrid on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @03:24AM (#24551856)

This is a very nice thing to see as it ensures that only content approved by a human reviewer can be promoted by the algorithm, hopefully reducing the risk that malicious/illegal content goes viral.

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Re:How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work by raxxorrax on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @03:38AM (#24551927)

Only approved content means mostly boring content that conforms to markets and other ambitions.

No illegal content for a social media service from China is a pretty large negative point.

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Re:How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work by yorwba on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @03:51AM (#24551991)

> No illegal content for a social media service from China is a pretty large negative point.

If they allowed illegal content, they'd have been banned even sooner. The best you can hope for is that they do not apply Chinese law outside of China, which seems to be the case, considering they have to make TikTok unavailable in China to avoid people seeing anything that's illegal in China.

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Re:How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work by raxxorrax on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:06AM (#24552088)

The Chinese version is called Douyin and it probably is a completely separate network.

The problem with "illegal" is that it is quickly extended to legally questionable. Defending content is not financially viable for any platform, even if you are in the right. In consequence it will be removed.

Twitter, Facebook and co currently attempt a regulatory capture and want to actually scrap their legal protections because they now have their censorship algorithm idiots demanded for some time.

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