{"id":6337,"date":"2024-05-17T15:08:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=6337"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:30:41","slug":"tiktok-attempts-to-rein-in-diet-and-weight-loss-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=6337","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Attempts to Rein In Diet and Weight Loss Content"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The company said it will work to remove content about drugs like Ozempic, extended fasting and more from the \u201cFor You\u201d feed.<\/p>\n

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Emma Lembke did not know what an algorithm was when she started using social media.<\/p>\n

The then-12-year-old was thrilled when her parents gave her permission to join Instagram. She quickly followed all kinds of accounts \u2014 from Kim Kardashian to Olive Garden, she said \u2014 and was soon spending five to six hours a day on the app. Then one day she searched for \u201cab workouts,\u201d and her feed shifted. She started seeing 200-calorie recipes, pro-anorexia posts<\/a> and exercise routines that \u201cno 12-year-old should be doing in their bedroom,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ms. Lembke, now 21, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a> in February 2023 about how social media led her to disordered eating, and what she and other advocates see as a dire need for stronger regulation to protect social media\u2019s youngest users.<\/p>\n

Social media platforms have promised to take more action. On Friday, TikTok enacted what some experts called one of the most well-defined policies<\/a> by a social media company yet on weight and dieting posts. The company\u2019s updated guidelines, which come as TikTok faces a potential ban<\/a> in the United States, include new guardrails on posts that show \u201cpotentially harmful weight management behaviors\u201d and excessive exercise.<\/p>\n

TikTok said it will work to ensure the \u201cFor You\u201d page, which serves as the main content feed on TikTok and is driven by an algorithm that caters to a user\u2019s interests, no longer shows videos that promote \u201cextended intermittent fasting,\u201d exercises designed for \u201crapid and significant weight loss\u201d or medications or supplements that promote muscle gain. The new regulations also aim to crack down on posts from influencers and other users promoting products used for weight loss or to suppress appetite, such as drugs like Ozempic. They also aim to curb content promoting anabolic steroid use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Under the new policy, machine learning models will attempt to flag and remove content that is considered potentially dangerous; a human moderation team will then review those posts to see if they need to remain off the For You feed, should be removed from age-restricted feeds or should be removed from the platform altogether, said Tara Wadhwa, TikTok\u2019s director of policy in the United States.<\/p>\n

The elimination of problematic TikToks from the main feed is meant in part to \u201cinterrupt repetitive content patterns,\u201d the new guidelines said. Ms. Wadhwa said the company wants to ensure users aren\u2019t exposed to diet and weight loss content \u201cin sequential order, or repeatedly over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The company said it will work to remove content about drugs like Ozempic, extended fasting and more from the \u201cFor You\u201d feed.Emma Lembke did not know what an algorithm was when she started using social media.The then-12-year-old was thrilled when her parents gave her permission to join Instagram. She quickly followed all kinds of accounts \u2014 from Kim Kardashian to Olive Garden, she said \u2014 and was soon spending five to six hours a day on the app. Then one day she searched for \u201cab workouts,\u201d and her feed shifted. She started seeing 200-calorie recipes, pro-anorexia posts and exercise routines that \u201cno 12-year-old should be doing in their bedroom,\u201d she said.Ms. Lembke, now 21, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2023 about how social media led her to disordered eating, and what she and other advocates see as a dire need for stronger regulation to protect social media\u2019s youngest users.Social media platforms have promised to take more action. On Friday, TikTok enacted what some experts called one of the most well-defined policies by a social media company yet on weight and dieting posts. The company\u2019s updated guidelines, which come as TikTok faces a potential ban in the United States, include new guardrails on posts that show \u201cpotentially harmful weight management behaviors\u201d and excessive exercise.TikTok said it will work to ensure the \u201cFor You\u201d page, which serves as the main content feed on TikTok and is driven by an algorithm that caters to a user\u2019s interests, no longer shows videos that promote \u201cextended intermittent fasting,\u201d exercises designed for \u201crapid and significant weight loss\u201d or medications or supplements that promote muscle gain. The new regulations also aim to crack down on posts from influencers and other users promoting products used for weight loss or to suppress appetite, such as drugs like Ozempic. They also aim to curb content promoting anabolic steroid use.Under the new policy, machine learning models will attempt to flag and remove content that is considered potentially dangerous; a human moderation team will then review those posts to see if they need to remain off the For You feed, should be removed from age-restricted feeds or should be removed from the platform altogether, said Tara Wadhwa, TikTok\u2019s director of policy in the United States.The elimination of problematic TikToks from the main feed is meant in part to \u201cinterrupt repetitive content patterns,\u201d the new guidelines said. Ms. Wadhwa said the company wants to ensure users aren\u2019t exposed to diet and weight loss content \u201cin sequential order, or repeatedly over and over again.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6339,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6340,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions\/6340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}