TikTok: According to the report, during the training, moderators viewed videos of child sexual abuse.

tik takAs everybody social network, you must have a strict content moderation system in place to prevent photos or videos that violate your terms of use from being posted on your platform. However, a new report indicates that the company provided extensive and insecure access to illegal child sexual abuse material while training its moderators.

The report comes from Forbes and notes that external content moderation team members called teleplaywho works for tik tak and other companies said they were asked to view this type of content during their training to do their job with the short video platform.

According to the report, employees had access to a spreadsheet called SRP (Mandatory daily reading for its translation into Spanish) about the rules of moderation tik tak which allegedly contained “hundreds of images and videos” of children being naked or being abused.

Interviewed employees also mentioned that hundreds of people working in tik tak D teleplay they had access to this content both inside and outside the offices, at the risk that this material could leak out of both companies’ databases.

Questionable Content Moderation on TikTok

Forbes contacted teleplay ask them about this information, and the company refused to show its employees material about the sexual exploitation of children. Also, tik tak noted that their training materials for content moderators “strict access controls and not including visual examples of child sexual abuse”. However, the platform has not confirmed that all of its third-party providers comply with this standard.

“This kind of content is disgusting and has no place on or off of our platform, and our goal is to minimize the impact of moderators in line with industry best practice. TikTok educational materials are strictly access-controlled and contain no graphic examples of child sexual abuse, and our dedicated Child Safety Team investigates and reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).”said Jamie Favazzarepresentative tik takin a statement sent The Verge.

Employees tell a completely different story, mentioning that they are shown images and videos sexual abuse children’s that are posted on social media and this material should be treated with great care as it is illegal in the US and various parts of the world. Ideally, this material should be reported NKMEK and it must be kept for 90 days by the companies owning the platforms, minimizing the number of people who come to see it.

Legally dangerous story for TikTok

Employee statements collected Forbes In their report, they state that teleplay I showed them graphic photos and videos as examples of what they should remove from tik tak quite easy. In fact, the report states that the worker contacted the FBI to find out if this was a criminal act of spreading information. child sexual abusebut it is not specified if the complaint will continue.

The report mentions that the situation with content moderators tik tak This became extremely difficult due to the explosion of the platform, so they couldn’t keep up with all the content that was pouring into the social network every day. Staff also noted that they have been asked to monitor this content that constitutes a crime against children for reasons that they say “They didn’t make sense”.

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