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lenkite on Aug 19, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US

That's because TikTok does pretty heavy 'auditing' - the content is NOT organic at all. Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top. The others go to the bottom or are 'disappeared'

Barrin92 on Aug 19, 2020 | [–]

>Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top.

I don't know what problem the US has with it then, they've already assimilated, Hollywood would be jealous

smallchungus on Aug 19, 2020 | [–]

Congrats you just described society.

lenkite on Aug 19, 2020 | [–]

This has little to do with "society". Its policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-guidelines-show-tik...

smallchungus on Aug 20, 2020 | | [–]

And the policy was written by........?

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