A number of TikTok accounts belonging to Malaysian media outlets are back in business after being banned last week due to a community guideline violation.
The social platform’s artifical intelligince (AI) system had previously banned 23 accounts after the media outlets’s coverage of an alleged sexual assault of a young girl at a mosque in Selangor on 21 February.
TikTok’s AI moderation flagged the coverage as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and made the accounts inaccessible to the public.
Among the accounts blocked were the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) and television news outlet Buletin TV3.
Eleven accounts have been unbanned
Checks by TRP today (5 March) found that at least 11 out of the 23 accounts have been unbanned, including:
- Malay Mail
- Buletin TV3
- Sinar Harian
- Buletin TV9
- Harian Metro
- Bernama Official
- Kosmo
- Kool101
- Berita FMT
- FMT Lifestyle
- Majoriti Official
Earlier, Minister of Communications Fahmi Fadzil announced that the Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) will be reaching out to TikTok to schedule a meeting with the platform’s Chief Editor and editors of the affected accounts on 3 March.
Fahmi also insisted that TikTok needed to coordinate their AI system with Malaysia’s laws.
