We want you to feel confident that you can access information that is reliable, discover content that is original, and engage with people who are authentic. This is foundational to building a community of trust and accountability both on and off-platform.

In a global community, it is natural for people to have different opinions, but we seek to operate on a shared set of facts and reality. We do not allow misinformation that may cause significant harm to individuals or society, regardless of intent. We rely on independent fact-checking partners, guidance from public health authorities, and our database of previously fact-checked claims to help assess the accuracy of content.

Content is ineligible for the FYF if it contains misinformation that may cause moderate harm, such as certain health content, conspiracy theories, repurposed media, or misrepresented authoritative sources. To be cautious, unverified information about emergencies and content temporarily under review by fact-checkers is also ineligible for the FYF.

To help you manage your TikTok experience, we may apply warning labels to content that has been assessed by our fact-checking partners and cannot be verified as accurate. We may also send prompts to reconsider sharing such content.

Elections are important events and are often the subject of intense discussion and analysis. We try to balance enabling these discussions, while also being a place that brings people together and does not cause division. We do not allow paid political promotion, political advertising, or fundraising by politicians and political parties (for themselves or others). Our political advertising policy includes both traditional paid advertisements and creators receiving compensation to support or oppose a candidate for office.

We want to enable the informed exchange of civic ideas in a way that fosters productive dialogue. We do not allow misinformation or content about civic and electoral processes that may result in voter interference, disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, or lead to off-platform violence.

Content may be ineligible for the FYF if it contains misinformation that can hinder the ability of a voter to make an informed decision. To be cautious, unverified claims about an election and content temporarily under review by fact-checkers may also be ineligible for the FYF.

To help you manage your TikTok experience, we may apply warning labels to content that has been assessed by our fact-checking partners and cannot be verified as accurate. Learn more about our election integrity work, and Government, Politician and Political Party accounts.

We welcome the creativity that new artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies may unlock. However, AI and other digital editing technologies can make it difficult to tell the difference between fact and fiction, which may mislead individuals or harm society. We require you to label AIGC or edited media that shows realistic-appearing scenes or people. This can be done using the AIGC label, or by adding a clear caption, watermark, or sticker of your own.

Even when appropriately labeled, AIGC or edited media may still be harmful. We do not allow content that shares or shows fake authoritative sources or crisis events, or falsely shows public figures in certain contexts. This includes being bullied, making an endorsement, or being endorsed.

We are committed to protecting people's privacy. We do not allow content that contains the likeness of young people, or the likeness of adult private figures used without their permission.

Authentic engagement is central to the integrity of our platform and informs how we recommend content that you may find interesting. We do not allow the trade or marketing of services that attempt to artificially increase engagement or deceive TikTok's recommendation system. If we become aware of accounts or content with inauthentically inflated metrics, we will remove the associated fake followers or likes.

Content is ineligible for the FYF if it seeks to trick or manipulate others to increase gifts, followers, likes, views, or other engagement metrics.

The creativity on TikTok is what makes it great, so you should only post your own work. We do not allow content that violates someone else's intellectual property rights. If we become aware of content that is a violation, we will remove it. Learn more about our intellectual property (IP) policies.

Content is ineligible for the FYF if it involves unoriginal or reproduced content that does not have any new or creative changes.

If you believe you have experienced an IP violation, you can file a copyright report or a trademark report.

To build a trusted community online, it is important that the behaviors and identities on your accounts are authentic and truthful. We do not allow account behavior that may spam or mislead our community. This includes conducting covert influence operations, manipulating engagement signals to amplify the reach of certain content, and operating spam or impersonation accounts. Parody or fan-based accounts are allowed, as long as they are clearly disclosed in the account name (note that this is different than the @username).

You can set up multiple accounts to create different channels for authentic creative expression, but not for deceptive purposes. We do not allow the use of accounts to engage in platform manipulation. This includes the use of automation to register or operate accounts in bulk, distribute high-volume commercial content, artificially increase engagement signals, and circumvent enforcement of our guidelines.

If any of your accounts have been banned, or restricted from using a feature, you must not set up a new account or use a different existing account to get around the ban or restriction.

If we determine you have engaged in any of these deceptive account behaviors, we will ban the account, and may ban any alternative accounts being used or new accounts that are created.