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TikTok has all the trouble in the world to remove from its platform, a violent and dangerous video reports

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It's now been 48 hours since the social network pinned a video in which a man commits suicide with a gun.

But the sequence, which is accompanied by a vignette unrelated to its content, continues to spread.

Proof of the flaws in the monitoring tools put in place by the social network.

A faulty algorithm

In question: the TikTok algorithm which controls the content present in the "For You" flow, specifies

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It was powerless to detect this video in time, which clearly violated its terms of use.

The offending footage was shared across multiple accounts, as content meant to match users.

The social network took drastic measures by banning accounts that published the media.

In vain.

“Our systems automatically detected and flagged these clips for violating our policies against content that displays, praises, glorifies or encourages suicide,” said a spokesperson for TikTok.

The footage not only spread on the Chinese social network, it also ended up on Twitter, Instagram or even Facebook Live.

Contrary to the terms of use of any social network, it must be reported and must not be shared under any circumstances.

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