Video-based content is already difficult to effectively moderate, because problematic content might be showcased visually, without keywords an automated AI might be able to check. And TikTok users are known for inventing shorthand and coded language specifically to evade censorship. There’s corn — or even just a corn emoji — for discussing porn, or “seggs” for sex. In the world of antisemitism, “H!tl3r” or “that Austrian painter” helps users talk about Hitler without detection.
I’m a Canadian who leans left and I was starting to get fed Nazi videos. Usually videos of “what could have been” set to background audio of one of Hitler’s speeches. You’d be surprised at how many Arabs and Slavs are in the comments wishing that he won, waxing nostalgic about a future ruled by the “Austrian painter.”