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TikTok Fixes “Significant Error” in Creator Marketplace After Phrases “Erroneously” Flagged as Hate Speech

TikTok Fixes “Significant Error” in Creator Marketplace After Phrases “Erroneously” Flagged as Hate Speech

BY J. CLARA CHAN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT A video by the comedian Ziggi Tyler appeared to show that phrases like "pro Black" and "Black Lives Matter" were flagged as "inappropriate content" on creator bios. TikTok said it fixed a “significant error” in its Creator Marketplace that “erroneously” flagged phrases as hate speech in response to a widely viewed video from a TikTok creator that appeared to show the platform marking words like “pro Black” and “Black Lives Matter” as “inappropriate content” on creator bios. “Our TikTok Creator Marketplace protections, which flag phrases typically associated with hate speech, were erroneously set to…
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