<p>TikTok is under the microscope in Washington as the Biden administration considers banning the Chinese video-sharing app, but the company has reacted with new community guidelines that only raise new questions.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/community-guidelines/en/integrity-authencity/?cgversion=2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new guidelines</a>, which TikTok released Tuesday, restrict discussions on climate change and vaccines, among other updates. The new guidelines even appear to allow the platform to ban what it deems &#8220;hateful organizations&#8221; for things they say or do away from the platform.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe online, and that feeling safe is key to unlocking imagination and creative expression,&#8221; the company <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/community-guidelines-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in announcing the new rules.</p>
<p>Under the new guidelines, TikTok will ban &#8220;climate change misinformation that undermines well-established scientific consensus, such as denying the existence of climate change or the factors that contribute to it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vaccines are also a newly regulated topic under the new guidelines. &#8220;Misleading statements about vaccines&#8221; are banned.</p>
<p>The new guidelines also ban &#8220;deepfakes&#8221; or AI-generated images and videos of young people and private figures.</p>
<p>The old TikTok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/community-guidelines?lang=en#37" target="_blank" rel="noopener">community guidelines</a>, which are set to expire April 21, ban &#8220;hateful ideologies&#8221; including &#8220;anti-LGBTQ&#8221; and the &#8220;organized hate groups&#8221; that embrace these ideologies. The new guidelines keep these bans. &#8220;Deadnaming or misgendering&#8221; a trans-identifying person is still banned under the new guidelines.</p>
<p>The old guidelines also banned &#8220;misinformation&#8221; defined as &#8220;content that is inaccurate or false,&#8221; but TikTok said it does not remove any and all inaccurate information.</p>
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<p>TikTok&#8217;s new guidelines expand what counts as misinformation.</p>
<p>Originally, TikTok banned simply &#8220;content that misleads community members about elections or other civic processes.&#8221; Now, TikTok will ban misinformation specifically about the &#8220;final results or outcome of an election.&#8221; The app will also suppress &#8220;unverified claims about the outcome of an election that is still unfolding and may be false or misleading.&#8221; The latter kind of content will not be eligible for the For You page, which is a personalized feed that serves as TikTok&#8217;s main content discovery tool.</p>
<p>Originally, TikTok also banned &#8220;misinformation related to emergencies that induces panic.&#8221; Now, the app will ban &#8220;unverified information related to an emergency or unfolding event where the details are still emerging.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/16/us-tells-tiktok-ban-sale-cfius" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to ban TikTok in the U.S. over national security concerns about the way the Chinese-owned social media company handles Americans&#8217; data. TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owners must give up ownership of the U.S. version of the app in order to avoid the U.S. ban, the Biden administration warned.</p>
<p>On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before Congress and attempted to reassure lawmakers that Americans&#8217; data is safe from the Chinese government. However, Chew declined to respond directly when asked whether Chinese officials at TikTok&#8217;s parent company ByteDance helped him prepare for the congressional hearing.</p>
<p>Chew also told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that he is against the Biden administration&#8217;s demand that TikTok&#8217;s Chinese owners sell the app or face a ban.</p>
<p>The Chinese government <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/business/china-forced-sale-tiktok.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday it would &#8220;firmly oppose&#8221; the sale of TikTok as well.</p>
<p>A potential TikTok ban is popular among Americans. About 41% of Americans said they support the federal government banning TikTok, according to a new Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/22/tiktok-ban-opinion-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">poll</a>. Just 25% of Americans say they are against banning the app, the poll found.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, Chew said that TikTok <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/22/tiktok-popularity-us-ban-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now has</a> 150 million active users in the U.S., up from the 100 million TikTok said it had in 2020.</p>

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