TikTok’s continued actions to protect the TikTok community during the Israel-Hamas war

Since TikTok’'s last update in early December 2023, they have continued to make progress in their work to combat hate on TikTok and protect the platform as the war continues:

• TikTok launched its #SwipeOutHate campaign in the US, encouraging the community to stand together against hate by reporting it in-app. The videos have already received millions of views.

• Comment Care Mode, a new set of comment filters, which began testing late last year, is now available to everyone in the US, Israel and Palestine, as TikTok continues to test the feature globally.

• TikTok has ramped up its efforts to onboard partners to their Community Partner Channel - a direct avenue for trusted flaggers around the world, including in the conflict region, to report content to TikTok for review, which sits alongside its in-app reporting function. Since December, TikTok has onboarded eight new organizations, including in Australia, Mexico and Denmark, representing communities affected by the war.

  TikTok continues to diligently and robustly enforce its Community Guidelines. From the start of the war through to the end of last year, it has removed more than 1.5 million videos and suspended more than 46,000 livestreams in Israel and Palestine for violating its Community Guidelines, including content promoting Hamas, hate speech, terrorism and misinformation. Globally, in the same time period, it has removed tens of millions of pieces of content, as detailed in the chart below, and have prevented teen accounts from viewing more than 1.5 million videos containing violence or graphic content. Read more on it here.