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TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders

AI Incident Database · article · Dec 27, 2020 · UTC

Videos promoting eating disorders evaded TikTok's automated violation detection system without difficulty via common misspellings of search terms, bypassing its ban of violating hashtags such as "proana" and "anorexia".

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recordType
incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2020-12-27T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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