Popular short-video app TikTok said (here) on Monday it was removing a clip of a suicide circulating on its platform and was banning accounts that were repeatedly trying to upload the clip.
We’re aware that clips of a suicide that was livestreamed on Facebook have recently circulated on other platforms, including TikTok. Our systems have been automatically detecting and flagging these clips for violating our Community Guidelines.
— TikTokSupport (@TikTokSupport) September 7, 2020
TikTok did not specify the video, but at least two media reports here said that videos of a man shooting himself with a gun had been circulating on TikTok since Sunday night.
“We’re aware that clips of a suicide that was livestreamed on Facebook have recently circulated on other platforms, including TikTok. Our systems have been automatically detecting and flagging these clips for violating our Community Guidelines,” TikTok said on Twitter.