Ethopia: Research finds Amharic language used to evade TikTok moderation, bypass hate speech detection

Addis Abeba– A study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found that the Amharic language is being used on TikTok to “bypass moderation” and “evade hate speech detection” by exploiting gaps in the platform’s content moderation systems.

The research identified 134 comments where Amharic was used in two ways: the first method, referred to as “coded,” involved “directly translating hate speech into Amharic using the Ge’ez script.” The second method, called “bypass,” involved “placing Amharic text…