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TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders

Videos promoting eating disorders evaded TikTok's automated violation detection system without difficulty via common misspellings of search terms, bypassing its ban of violating hashtags such as "proana" and "anorexia".

Severity: LowExposure to toxic content

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