March, 22, 2023
TikTok has announced their refreshed Community Guidelines, reaffirming their commitment to safety. TikTok's Community Guidelines are the rules and standards for being part of the TikTok community which apply to everyone and everything on the platform. As a part of this announcement, the platform is also introducing TikTok's Community Principles.
The Community Principles will help users and the wider community to better understand the decisions about how the platform works to keep TikTok a safe place for users. These principles are based on TikTok's commitment to uphold human rights and aligned with international legal frameworks. These principles guide TikTok's decisions about how they moderate content, so that the platform can strive to be fair in their actions, protect human dignity, and strike a balance between freedom of expression and preventing harm.
To inform the most comprehensive updates to TikTok's Community Guidelines to date, the platform consulted more than 100 organisations around the world, including International Association for Suicide Prevention, and regionally with the Safety Advisory Council and SMEX in addition to members of their community. Their input helped TikTok to strengthen their rules and respond to new threats and potential harms. Some of the key changes are:
TikTok's new Community Guidelines will take effect on April 21 and will provide additional training to their moderators in order to help enforce these updated rules and standards effectively.
Taking into account previous feedback, TikTok has brought everything about their rules and standards into one place so that everyone from creators to researchers can get what they need. Rules and guidelines have now been organized thematically into different topic areas such as Behavioural and Mental Health.
TikTok have also laid out the four pillars for their approach to moderation:
Today's update to TikTok's Community Guidelines also expands on their enforcement strategy by:
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