... Thank you for your email dated November 11, 2024, in which you invited TikTok to respond to allegations that advertisements on social media platforms, including TikTok, are being used to recruit young African women into Russian factories making weapons of war under exploitative conditions. We appreciate the opportunity to provide more detail on our policies surrounding human exploitation…

Last month, TikTok became aware of the ‘Alabuga Start’ recruitment drive, which was using social media platforms to recruit African women to work in a Russian drone factory. We determined that Alabuga Start content violates our Community Guidelines against human exploitation. We then quickly conducted a platform investigation to identify, remove, and ban accounts and videos associated with Alabuga Start. We are continuing to monitor our platform for new content related to this scheme as well as other attempts to exploit members of our community while on TikTok.

TikTok is committed to upholding human dignity, and our Community Guidelines explicitly prohibit human exploitation. This prohibition on exploitation includes taking advantage of vulnerable people in connection with trafficking and smuggling…

We remain committed to investing in measures to improve our ability to identify and remove content…

We recognize that tactics can evolve quickly…