TikTok to place warning screens on videos that contain disturbing content
Chinese short video-making app TikTok will now place
warning screens on graphic videos to prevent the users from viewing disturbing content.
Part of its new community guidelines, the warning screen will give
two options -- either view the clip or skip it entirely.
More extreme content is already being removed from the platform
entirely but the new warning labels cover content that might be allowed for
"documentary reasons," scenes from horror movies, or violent scenes
of animals hunting. TikTok also announced
a new text-to-voice accessibility tool that would read out text as it appears
in a video.
The company informed that it is adding vaccine information to its
coronavirus resource hub.
"The hub will be updated to include commonly asked questions
and answers about COVID-19 vaccines from public health experts like the Centers
for Disease Control.
According to the company, the coronavirus resource hub has been
viewed over two billion times in the last six months.
TikTok is
also planning to allow its users longer, three-minute videos in an apparent bid
to take on YouTube.
TikTok currently allows creators to upload videos up to a minute
in length.
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