TikTok Admits Secretly Restricting ‘Gay’ and ‘LGBTQ’ Hashtags in Certain Countries

Reacting to a new report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the social video-sharing platform TikTok admitted that it restricted LGBTQ-related hashtags in certain countries. The report found that TikTok restricted the word “gay” in Russian and Arabic, “I am a lesbian” and “I am gay” in Russian, and “transgender” in Arabic. The BBC reports: … Continue reading TikTok Admits Secretly Restricting ‘Gay’ and ‘LGBTQ’ Hashtags in Certain Countries