The guidelines prohibit misinformation assessed as capable of causing significant harm to individuals or society, and separately 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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These provisions establish content removal authority over two distinct categories of false or misleading content, with election integrity provisions specifying enumerated subcategories of prohibited false claims and the misinformation provision applying a harm-threshold standard that requires platform assessment of potential impact.
Interpretive note: The harm threshold for the misinformation provision and the interference standard for the election integrity provision are assessed at TikTok's discretion without enumerated criteria in this document section, creating interpretive variance in enforcement.
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 →Specifically addresses election integrity and voter manipulation threats with concrete examples of prohibited false claims.
View full change record →Under these provisions, content involving misinformation assessed as significantly harmful or content making false claims about voting or elections is subject to removal; the standards applied to assess significant harm and election interference are defined at TikTok's discretion.
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Compare across platforms →"Misinformation: We don't allow misinformation that could cause significant harm to individuals or society. 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: Election integrity provisions may interact with federal and state election laws, including FEC regulations on election-related communications and state statutes prohibiting voter suppression or election interference.
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These provisions establish content removal authority over two distinct categories of false or misleading content, with election integrity provisions specifying enumerated subcategories of prohibited false claims and the misinformation provision applying a harm-threshold standard that requires platform assessment of potential impact.
Under these provisions, content involving misinformation assessed as significantly harmful or content making false claims about voting or elections is subject to removal; the standards applied to assess significant harm and election interference are defined at TikTok's discretion.
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