TTITOCK is now blocking search results for #skinnytok
Ticto Shows Search results for a hashtag called #skinnytok. Critics who support the block said some videos with the label were encouraging irregular food and other unhealthy or offensive food behaviors. We have reached Tictok to comment on this development.
Clara Chappaj is one of the politicians of France’s Digital Affairs State Pushback Against this particular hashtag. She has been campaigning against #Skinnitok with French and EU regulators ever since April. “These videos that encourage tremendous thinner are rebellion and certainly not acceptable,” said Chappaj. “Digital tools are amazing in terms of progress and freedom, but those who use badly use lives … Social networks cannot escape their responsibility.”
A TICTOCK spokesperson provided the following statement: “We regularly review our safety measures to address developing risks and blocked search results for #Skinitok, as it is tied to unhealthy weight loss content. We are limiting videos from teenage accounts and providing health professionals and information in the Titok search.”
When people are now searching for the term, the results are not displayed and consumers will be directed to resources instead. When this content began to cultivate, the Tictoc has identified the increase in use earlier this year, but in March, things have increased in March, which during this time it began to take further action as direction to the above search changes and resources content. It began to limit the relevant search suggestions and disqualified content for teenagers.
While blocking search results for harmful hashtags is a positive step, it only puts obstacles in the path of people who want to find such videos. Cornell University Professor Brook Erin Dafi says “users are smarter The New York Times. “They know how to work these platforms and how to escape their content moderation systems.”
The latest in the PeaceMeal process of Tictoc is the content of promoting a blocked disorders in a hashtag. Put it in 2020 Restrictions on ads It “promotes a negative or harmful body image” such as fasting apps and weight loss drugs. Tictoc started a Share With the National Eating Disorder Association in 2021 to provide more resources to customers with eating disorders. After that year, it also introduced a new one Method To your page in an attempt to reduce the effect of looking at most recurring clips on a negative topic.
Update, June 4, 2025, 2:41 PM ET: The story is updated with a statement and additional details from Tictoc.
