Short-form video hosting service TikTok will work with Kenya in reviewing and monitoring its content, President William Ruto has announced.
In a virtual meeting with President Ruto on Thursday, August 24, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew committed to ensuring that content is moderated to fit community standards.
The move, President Ruto said, will ensure that content on the platform adheres to agreed guidelines.
This new development means that inappropriate or offensive content will be expunged from the platform.
During the meeting, Mr Chew also agreed to set up a Kenyan Office to coordinate its operations in the continent. He pledged to hire more Kenyans to work for the platform.
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The Head of State on Wednesday disclosed that he would talk to the TikTok CEO after calls by a section of the public to ban the platform in Kenya of negative content.
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“Tomorrow morning I will be speaking to the global CEO of TikTok. I know we have had a conversation as a country around TikTok and some of the challenges that are in that space and like we have moderation capacities in YouTube and Twitter.
"Tomorrow morning we are having a conservation with the TikTok CEO so that we can agree on a mechanism to moderate content in their space so that we can reduce the content that is negative and leverage on the monetization that is benefiting a lot more people,” Ruto stated.
