By Ebony Tucker, Product Policy Manager, TikTok

At TikTok, we value and celebrate self-expression and are focused on promoting an environment where community members feel safe and comfortable sharing their experiences, including difficult conversations such as those around sexual harassment and sexual assault.

Today, we recognize the start of Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and the Yukon, and the important conversations happening on our platform about sexual violence, recovery, and advocacy. We've been working with experts to improve our understanding of sexual assault and trauma and how to foster a safe and supportive space for survivors. Now, we're rolling out new resources we developed with guidance from the Native Women's Association of Canada and Black Women in Motion, leading Canadian organizations with expertise on sexual assault. Our goal is to make access to support readily available to anyone in need and educate the broader community on this important issue.

Providing resources for our community

For survivors who want to share their story, it is important that they are able to do so without fear of abuse or alienation. To help create a welcoming environment we're working to connect our community to expert-backed support materials. We've partnered with Black Women in Motion and the Native Women's Association of Canada to develop educational content for this month within our Discover page, where people can learn about the harmful impacts of sexual violence, prevention, and healing.

This year's theme for Sexual Assault Awareness Month — We Can Build Safe Online Spaces — is one that especially resonates with us. As a global platform, we continue to think about the measures we can take to keep TikTok a space where survivors can find support and community.


Building safe online spaces requires understanding where the conversations are taking place and meeting survivors where they are. As such, we've introduced permanent public service announcements on hashtags, such as #consentmatters and others, to both foster supportive conversations and connect our community to help resources on our Safety Center.


Building for safety

In the coming months, we'll be rolling out additional permanent resources to help survivors looking for confidential help, information, and services in our app. As a global platform, we continue to think about the measures we can take to keep TikTok a space where survivors can find support and community.

As a reminder, TikTok strictly prohibits content depicting or supporting sexual violence, including non-consensual intimate imagery, hacked imagery, and attempts to glorify rape and sexual assault. Another step we've recently taken is refreshing our policies so that they create space for survivors to share their story or find community, without fear of further harassment. In order to do that, we strive to consistently and equitably enforce our policies against content that exploits sexual violence or accounts that engage in harassing behaviors. We are continuing to work with experts to evolve and refine these policies and our enforcement measures.

As we continue to work with experts and evolve our approach to providing community resources, our hope is to uplift survivors and help build a culture in which there are fewer victims, not just in May but every month of the year.