TikTok Struggles Moderating Low-Resource Language Content

TikTok’s content moderation in Kenya is failing to reliably detect harmful or permissible posts in many African languages, according to Christian Science Monitor reporting from interviews and user accounts between 2023 and 2025. Workers outsourced to Teleperformance say they review roughly 500 videos per nine-hour shift for about $300 monthly, while AI models trained mainly in English miss low-resource languages, prompting mass reporting and wrongful takedowns.
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