Thread by @_DanielSinclair

This type of coordinated behavior was quickly substantiated following Christchurch. I haven't seen much evidence of that here. If Discord edgelords are a 'dark web' 'coordinated attack' than TikTok might not be equipped to combat the PRC actors.

I don't expect every platform to succeed against this type of thing, but ByteDance literally prepared for this exact scenario — and they simply failed. Maybe they should own up to that instead of describing it like organized cybercrime and nation states.

"We learned that groups operating on the dark web made plans to raid social media platforms, including TikTok, in order to spread the video across the internet" theguardian.com/technology/202…

"I don’t want to say too much publicly in this forum about how we detect and manage that"

"Emergency machine-learning services kicked in" is short for "Taylor Lorenz tweeted" and "half of our community was spreading awareness about this."

I do agree with TikTok that there should be inter-company real-time moderation and cooperation. These days, we have the PhotoDNA datasets and moderation 'beacons' (like Alex Jones enforcement), but we have few real time tools for the next terrorist attack like Christchurch.