A senior TikTok executive admitted the company used to censor content critical of China, 'specifically with regard to the Uighur situation'
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Nov 05 2020 at 2:04 PM GMT
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- A TikTok executive admitted that the video-sharing app censored content likely to anger China in the past, but insisted that is no longer the case.
- At a UK parliamentary committee hearing on Wednesday, Elizabeth Kanter, TikTok's UK director of public policy, was asked by Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani whether the app had quashed content about the Uighur crisis in Xinjiang, where at least 1 million Uighur Muslims and other minorities have been detained in so-called "reeducation camps.
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- Published Nov 5, 2020 2:04 PM GMT