TikTok LGBTQ shadowbanning

A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) think-tank says that many LGBT hashtags were 'shadow-banned' on TikTok in Bosnia, Jordan, and Russia.

Shadow banning involves limiting the discovery of content without communicating that a specific hashtag is on a ban list. 

According to TikTok, some hashtags were restricted to comply with local laws, others were limited as they were often used to discover pornographic content, whilst some English and Arabic phrases has been banned by mistake.