> it's possible for diligent researchers to reveal unpublicized policies through their research It's possible to reveal __some__ policies (like trivial one wit

> it's possible for diligent researchers to reveal unpublicized policies through their research It's possible to reveal __some__ policies (like trivial one with breastfeeding), but I think that reverse-engineering of non-trivial policies is really hard. Like moving some type of content to the bottom of the feed for some category of users. It may not look like a ban, but who is gonna scroll to the bottom of the feed? Or 25% bias in news priorities of one political party over another for some users. Their non-trivial policies may also change over time, so it would be hard to prove any of them. They had years to optimize their news feed. And who will have time and knowledge to do statistics? With millions of eyeballs we still have tons of trivial bugs in open source software. > I haven't seen a reason to suspect that TikTok have been any more open about their moderation policies than Facebook or indeed any other social media platform have been. I don't know any of big news players who have open editorial policy, but TikTok is new in the industry and I think they don't have knowledge and technologies to develop non-trivial policies like Facebook, Twitter, NYT or any other big player.