BEIJING: Not less than ten videos propagating the Daesh message has been removed from the Social Media App Tik Tok.
Owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, Tik Tok was used by 500 million users last year and taking advantage of its popularity a number of propaganda videos for Daesh were posted.
The videos that had been removed featured corpses being paraded through streets and Daesh fighters with guns, reported WSJ. The posts were from a couple of dozen accounts, which were identified by Storyful (Social Media Intelligence Company).
Company maintains that content promoting terrorist organizations have absolutely no place on TikTok: “We permanently ban any such accounts and associated devices as soon as identified, and we continuously develop ever-stronger controls to proactively detect suspicious activity۔”
According to Storyful, unlike other platforms, which are centered around users’ friends or communities, TikTok is based on engaging with a never-ending stream of new content. This platform, allowing its users to create and share videos of 15 seconds, is specially popular with teenagers.
A relevant piece published earlier:
LHC issues notice to federation for Sept 25 on plea to ban TikTok
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday issued notices to federation and others for September 25 on a petition seeking a ban on TikTok, an Android-based social media video application.
The single bench comprising Justice Shahid Mubeen issued notices on a petition filed by Advocate Nadeem Sarwar.
During the proceedings, the petitioner-counsel submitted that TikTok was a great mischief of modern times and it was destroying the youth and promoting immoral activities.
He submitted that the video application had been causing negative social impacts, wastage of time, energy, money and nudity whereas it was also a source of harassment and blackmailing.
He submitted that the application had been banned in Bangladesh and Malaysia for its pornography and inappropriate content and its use for mocking people.
The counsel pleaded with the court to direct the respondents to impose a complete ban on TikTok in Pakistan for degrading culture and encouraging pornography.
He also sought a direction for the law ministry to initiate measures for a legislation aimed at protecting online privacy of children, besides directions to the PEMRA for ensuring that videos made on TikTok were not broadcast on television channels.
The court after hearing initial arguments issued notices to the federation and other respondents for September 25.
It is pertinent to mention here that the video application was created by a Chinese company and introduced in overseas market the last year.
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