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# Report: TikTok promoting anti-LGBTQ+ content
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/report-tiktok-promoting-anti-lgbtq-content/
- Published: 2021-05-24T09:39:52.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-24T09:39:52.000Z
- Description: A report from Media Matters found TikTok is promoting content that is “blatantly anti-LGBTQ+”.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Queer Corner, Glaad, LGBTQ, Media Matters for America, social media, TikTok

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A new [report](https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-recommendation-algorithm-promoting-homophobia-and-anti-trans-violence?ref=scenemag.co.uk) from **Media Matters For America** has found popular social media platform, TikTok, is promoting content that is *“blatantly anti-LGBTQ+”,* some of which encourages targeted violence. To test TikTok’s algorithm, researchers tracked which videos were recommended after watching anti-LGBTQ+ content, finding that their “For You” pages featured an increasing amount of hostile videos the more the user engaged with said content.

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Anti-LGBTQ+ content included videos that contained homophobic and transphobic slurs, among ones that actively encouraged violence against LGBTQ+ people. Other videos requested *“only homophobic ppl follow me”,* and some encouraged users to burn the LGBTQ+ Pride flag. TikTok has also been [accused](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lgbtq-content-censored-by-tiktok/) of making pro-LGBTQ+ content more difficult to find by suppressing content with certain hashtags, such as #gay or #trans.

Media Matters concluded: *“The reality is that even though TikTok claims to prohibit discriminatory and hateful content, explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ videos are not only flourishing but being fed directly to users’ “For You” pages by the company’s algorithm.”* The findings follow a recent social media [report](https://www.axios.com/glaad-study-facebook-instagram-youtube-tiktok-8d9555b6-4cee-4db8-8b51-5b5fdad0c749.html?utm%5Fsource=twitter&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=editorial&utm%5Fcontent=technology-axiosonhbo) from **GLAAD** which found all popular sites and apps are *“categorically unsafe”* for LGBTQ+ people.

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