TikTok’s Black Creators Say Unfair-Treatment Complaints Ignored

Mya Nicole Johnson, a 15-year-old Black influencer with 675,000 TikTok followers, says her account has been blocked from posting seven times in the past eight weeks. Kahlil Greene, a social media star at Yale University who was also its first Black student body president, posts educational videos about the history of oppression in America, but they keep getting auto-removed for “hate speech” or “harassment.” Creator Erick Louis has noticed that some TikToks that include Black Lives Matter in their captions are immediately put under review.

The reason? “That’s what I’m trying to figure out,” Johnson said.