TikTok has said that it has since changed its content moderation guidelines.īetween the lines: Oracle will also conduct regular audits of TikTok's content moderation processes, including those involving automated systems and those employing people, a spokesperson said. A Guardian report from 2019 suggested that TikTok had in the past censored content in a way that aligned with Beijing's foreign policy messaging.The reviews give Oracle visibility into how TikTok's algorithms surfaces content "to ensure that outcomes are in line with expectations and that the models have not been manipulated in any way," the spokesperson said.user data over to Oracle's cloud, as is expected.) (It's still unclear when TikTok will be done migrating all of its previous U.S.
user traffic is being routed to Oracle's cloud infrastructure.
The reviews, a source told Axios, began officially last week, now that all new U.S. operations' backend functions and code.ĭetails: The new arrangement gives Oracle "regular vetting and validation" of TikTok's content recommendation and moderation models, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. TikTok has been preparing Project Texas for over a year by separating its U.S. The project name refers to Oracle's headquarters in Texas. user data is safe and content recommendations aren't being manipulated. TikTok users and lawmakers assurance that U.S. The big picture: Both of those moves are part of a broader TikTok effort called Project Texas, which is meant to give U.S. user data, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times. It also hinted that it would establish a partnership with an outside firm to oversee its algorithms in a response to a letter from Republican senators inquiring about its protection of U.S. user data to Oracle's cloud infrastructure. government, TikTok said it had begun routing all its U.S. The app has since skyrocketed in popularity in the U.S.Ĭatch up quick: In June, after longstanding pressure from the U.S. lip-syncing app Musical.ly in 2017 and merged it with its version of a similar app called TikTok. TikTok is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance. 
platform operates independently from influence by the Chinese Communist Party. Why it matters: The effort is meant to provide further assurance to lawmakers that TikTok's U.S. Oracle has begun vetting TikTok's algorithms and content moderation models to ensure they aren't manipulated by Chinese authorities, Axios has learned.
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