TikTok's response re- illegal job advertisements targeting Filipino migrants
... TikTok is committed to upholding individual human dignity and ensuring TikTok is not used to take advantage of vulnerable people. We have a zero-tolerance approach to human smuggling and trafficking. Our policies also prohibit content that attempts to defraud or scam members of our community. As we make clear in our Community Guidelines, when we identify content that violates our policies, we remove it. We may ban accounts that repeatedly break our rules…
TikTok has tens of thousands of trust and safety professionals working to protect our community, and we invest considerable resources into finding and removing these types of content as quickly as possible….
In addition to striving to consistently and equitably enforce our rules, TikTok collaborates closely with civil society and government authorities such as the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) in the Philippines to help safeguard Filipinos from illegal recruitment scams. We have a process for government removal requests and consider requests made to us through proper channels and where otherwise required by law…
TikTok also works with external partners including STOP THE TRAFFIK to ensure we have a robust approach to potentially violative content on the platform, including that which seeks to perpetrate human exploitation…