The guidelines prohibit content that could mislead voters or interfere with elections, including false claims about voting procedures, voter eligibility, or election outcomes.
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This provision establishes a categorical prohibition on election-related misinformation as defined by the platform, which interacts with obligations under the EU Digital Services Act for very large online platforms and is relevant to regulatory scrutiny of platform election integrity practices in multiple jurisdictions.
Interpretive note: The standard 'content that could mislead voters' requires platform-level editorial judgment to apply and may be interpreted variably across enforcement decisions.
The updated Community Guidelines footer no longer includes a direct link to TikTok's Children's Privacy Policy. Previously, users navigating the Community Guidelines could access child-specific privacy disclosures through the footer link. The Children's Privacy Policy itself may remain available on TikTok's platform, but this change reduces the visibility and discoverability of that document from the Community Guidelines page. Users seeking child privacy information from the Community Guidelines will need to navigate elsewhere or search for it independently.
View change record →The Community Guidelines document no longer contains the substantive explanations of prohibited conduct, safety standards, and platform rules that previously appeared in one consolidated location. Users must now navigate to separate linked resources to understand what content is allowed, what triggers removal, and how the For You feed operates. This change makes it less convenient to quickly review the full range of platform rules, though the underlying policies themselves appear to remain accessible through linked pages.
View change record →Under these terms, content making false claims about how to vote, who can vote, or election outcomes is subject to removal regardless of the account type publishing it.
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Compare across platforms →"Civic and Election Integrity: We don't allow content that could mislead voters or interfere with elections, including false claims about how to vote, who can vote, or the outcome of an election.Excerpt from TikTok's Community Guidelines
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The election integrity provision interacts with the EU Digital Services Act, which imposes specific obligations on designated very large online platforms regarding election-related content moderation and transparency.
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This provision establishes a categorical prohibition on election-related misinformation as defined by the platform, which interacts with obligations under the EU Digital Services Act for very large online platforms and is relevant to regulatory scrutiny of platform election integrity practices in multiple jurisdictions.
Under these terms, content making false claims about how to vote, who can vote, or election outcomes is subject to removal regardless of the account type publishing it.
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