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TikTok's "For You" Algorithm Allegedly Abused by Online Personality to Promote Anti-Women Hate

AI Incident Database · article · Aug 6, 2022 · UTC

TikTok’s “For You” algorithm allegedly boosted or was manipulated by an online personality to artificially boost his content which promotes extreme misogynistic views towards teenagers and men, despite breaking its rules.

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recordType
incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2022-01-15T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

Observed changes

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

  • publishedAt: Not provided → 2022-08-06T00:00:00.000Z