TikTok's Excuses For Its Anti-Black Racism Are Getting Pretty Absurd

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TikTok's Excuses For Its Anti-Black Racism Are Getting Pretty Absurd
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The app has been flagging phrases such as 'Black Lives Matter' as 'inappropriate'

posting about Black Lives Matter.

“Regardless of what the algorithm is and how it picked up, somebody had to program that algorithm,” Tyler told. “And if [the problem] is the algorithm, and the marketplace has been available since [2020], why wasn’t this a conversation you had with your team, knowing there have been racial controversies?” he asked.

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