TikTok told content moderators to suppress videos from users who were too ugly or poor and asked them to censor certain political speech in livestreams.
Internal documents, published by The Intercept over the weekend, show that the social network instructed moderators to not promote videos from users who had "ugly facial looks" such as scars, too many wrinkles and fangs to the app's "For You" page. Getting a video highlighted on that page could help a user attract more views and followers. Users who had an "obvious beer belly" or shot their videos in a "shabby and dilapidated" environment such as a slum might have also been excluded from the page.
