Accused of bias towards Malaysia's PN pact, TikTok says moderators have no power to influence content

TikTok is widely credited for PN’s unexpected gains in the general election, after it successfully employed the platform to win youth support.

Content with a racial slant was widespread on the platform before and after the election campign, some of which were paid for.

“We have a robust quality assurance system in place to ensure that the political or personal opinions of our employees do not affect their work quality and ethics, including when performing content moderation tasks,” he said in a statement. In the video Mr Hafizin was referring to, a speaker alleged that the Malaysian Islamic Party Gombak information chief had been a member of the moderation team at Bytedance Malaysia, the local arm of the Chinese firm that owned and operated TikTok.

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