...TikTok is firmly committed to enforcing our policies against deceptive behavior like covert influence operations, and we have dedicated, full-time international trust and safety teams with specialized expertise across threat intelligence, security, law enforcement, and data science working to support this effort. These teams continuously pursue and analyze on-platform signals of deceptive behavior, as well as off-platform activity and leads from external sources. They also collaborate with external intelligence vendors to support specific investigations on a case-by-case basis. We report the influence operations we disrupt every month in a dedicated report in our Transparency Center. In 2024, we disrupted over 50 influence operations worldwide.

When it comes to AI-generated content (AIGC), TikTok is focused on removing harmful content, advancing transparency so that people have context about what they're viewing, and empowering responsible content creation. We do not allow content that shares or shows fake authoritative sources or crisis events, or falsely shows public figures in certain contexts...Our global network of fact checkers, which covers more than 60 languages, helps us to assess the accuracy of content to help inform our moderation decisions.

...TikTok had already identified a network that exhibited behavioral patterns similar in description to the patterns exhibited by accounts in Operation Matryoshka and had taken action to disrupt it. We removed the TikTok video referenced in the article before BHRRC contacted us. To date, we have taken down more than 110 accounts linked to this network and continue to proactively detect and remove new accounts attempting to reestablish a presence on the platform. We look forward to sharing additional details about this disruption in our June 2025 Covert Influence Operations Transparency Report, which will be published soon...