TikTok said it removed over 380,000 videos in the U.S. this year for violating its hate speech policy, the ByteDance-owned company said Thursday. The announcement follows moves by Facebook and Twitter to curtail the online activity by groups promoting conspiracy theories such as QAnon that can promote violence. The short music-video app has also banned more than 1,300 accounts and removed over...
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