Tik Tok is struggling with a problem familiar to other social networks: hate speech. In its efforts to “eliminate hate”, the social media platform on Thursday said that it removed over 380,000 videos in the US and banned 1,300 accounts for violating its hate speech policy. It had also deleted 64,000 comments on similar grounds.

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“These numbers don’t reflect a 100 percent success rate in catching every piece of hateful content or behavior, but they do indicate our commitment to action,” TikTok US head of safety Eric Han said in a blog post, stating that their goal is to eliminate hate.

The move is expected to combat the criticism on the platform that it is fuelling hate speech. “TikTok has a zero-tolerance stance against accounts linked to white nationalism, male supremacy, anti-Semitism and other hate-based ideologies,” Han added.

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Earlier, it had rubbished the claims that it is providing user data to the Chinese government. Referring to it as ‘misinformation and lies,’ the company said that any insinuation to the contrary is unfounded and blatantly false.

President Donald Trump has issued executive orders giving TikTok parent ByteDance, which is based in China, deadlines to stop running the app in the US and divest TikTok. Meanwhile, China condemned US for using “digital gunboat diplomacy” in the TikTok case. US technology firms Microsoft and Oracle are reported to be looking into the potential of buying TikTok.