| Challenge: | Existing studies on TikTok's potential to promote and amplify harmful content have not been conducted. |
| Approach: | They analyze a longitudinal dataset of 1.5M videos shared in the U.S. over three years and evaluate the effects of TikTok’s Creativity Program for monetization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves high precision in detecting harmful content, but its overall performance is comparable to fine-tuned traditional models such as RoBERTa. |
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