TikTok assures that moderation is getting better: “layers of content” are coming.

During the last few months, Tick ​​tock has been working on new ways to age-restrict certain types of content as part of a further push to increase security features for younger users.

The app introduced a new rating system earlier this year, called “Content Layers,” to help identify more “mature” content.

Now, the company has another update on that. In a blog post, TikTok is rolling out a new version of its “suggestive model limit”which the company uses to automatically identify “sexually explicit, suggestive or limit“.

According to a TikTok spokesperson, the new model can better detect so-called “content.” limit“, videos that don’t explicitly violate the app’s rules, but may not be suitable for younger users.

How is the filter

TikTok isn’t the only platform filtering this type of content from recommendations. Instagram has long sought to remove borderline content outside of its recommendations as well.

The problem is that content with more themes “for adults“, but which does not contain explicit nudity, has long been more difficult for automated systems to detect.

TikTok didn’t provide details on how accurate the new system was, but did share that over the past 30 days, the company “blocked teen accounts from seeing over 1 million overtly sexually suggestive videos.”

Elsewhere, the app is also rolling out the ability for creators to limit their videos to adult viewers. Previously, this feature was only available for live video, but now it will be enabled for short clips as well.

In the United States, prohibited

Meanwhile, the app is experiencing difficulties in the US. By consensus, i.e. without the need to submit the project to a vote, the country’s Senate approved this month to ban the application on the official devices of employees of the federal government. In any case, the new regulation still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives to become law.

The decision came after several lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, suggested that data collected by the popular short-video app could end up in the hands of the Chinese government.

The rule approved today by the upper house would prevent the download of the application on any device used for business purposes by federal government officials.

A few years ago, as part of his strategy to increase pressure on China, the then US president, Donald Trumpgave TikTok an ultimatum to switch its operations to US companies if it didn’t want to be banned in the country.

However, this did not happen and today the application remains the property of the Chinese company bytedancewhich has ensured on several occasions that it does not share its users’ data with the authorities of the Asian country.

TikTok has more than 100 million users in the United States and in a short time it has become one of the most popular social networks in the world, especially among teenagers.