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TikTok has proposed a global coalition of social media firms for early identification and removal of harmful content, the company said on Tuesday, as networking apps face a barrage of criticism over issues ranging from misinformation to data privacy.
The company, owned by China’s ByteDance and at the centre of a political battle between Washington and Beijing, said it had sent letters to nine companies for a memorandum of understanding on content moderation.
Individual content review efforts by each platform can be advanced through a formal and collaborative approach, the short-video app said.
TikTok did not name the companies it had reached out to but said it had proposed a meeting between the firms to discuss the matter.
The app, a relative newcomer to the social media landscape, has had fewer instances of wrestling publicly with the persistent content moderation scandals that have dogged larger and more entrenched competitors like Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc.
