the ROME – A warning that refers to the information verified of institutional sources, both international and local. And’ the initiative to the theme coronavirus of TikTok, the app to video very popular among young people, even in Italy. “During the creation, viewing or interacting with content related to the coronavirus check the facts by using reliable sources including the World health Organization or the sources of your local government”, writes TikTok on a notice that appears when you are on the platform looking for content on the Covid-19. The app also invites to report “content that may violate the community guidelines”.
In Italy, the ministry of Health in the past few days has made agreements with Facebook and Twitter, to stem the fake news on the epidemic, and to refer users to the information certified by the ministry.
As for the moderation of the sensitive content, the ones with violence or sexual content explicit, the system of TikTok provides a passage to the sieve of technology, and then, “if you turn on the amber light”, is transferred to the evaluation of a team of moderators that covers all the languages, even Italian. “We have all the interest to open ourselves to dialogue with the institutions and the political world in italy, we are transparent and we want to confront it,” added the spokesman of TikTok, at a meeting in Rome, explaining that the european team is based in London, but not specifying the number of moderators, stressing that the mother house of the platform is chinese but Italian data are stored in the United States. “We respect the Gdpr, we adhere to these rules”, he pointed out the spokesman of the platform referring to the european Union regulation concerning the processing of personal data and privacy, operating by may 2018.
TiTok was founded in 2017, the year of the acquisition of the Musical.ly on the part of the chinese society ByteDance, and has been launched in 2018 as TikTok, a name which is now known in over 150 Countries and 75 languages. In China, the platform is known as Douyin, and the management of the personal data of chinese users remains in the country. Today – according to the analyst firm Sensor Tower – TikTok been downloaded a billion and a half times around the world. In Italy, on the chat you publish an average of 236 video per minute.
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