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Tech Support: How to block trolls on your TikTok account

Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley breaks down how to block trolls on your TikTok account.

Video Transcript

ADAM SHAPIRO: We've got about nine minutes to the closing bell. Dan Howley is joining us now with our tech support topic, which has to do with TikTok and some of the steps they're taking to help support anti-bullying efforts. Dan.

DAN HOWLEY: That's right. Like a porta-potty at a college football tailgate, internet trolls are a fact of life that are best avoided. And I got to say, TikTok is taking some steps to make sure that you can do that now on the regular. And what they're doing is introducing a new feature that allows you to filter out any comments on your post. So if you put something online, all of your comments will be able to be viewed prior to showing up. And then you'll be able to decide which ones you want to show there.

Now to do that, what you're going to have to do is go to your homepage, tap on the Me icon at the bottom of the screen, and then at the top of the screen, you're going to see three horizontal buttons. That's going to take you to the Settings menu. From there, you're going to want to choose Privacy, scroll all the way down until you get Comment Filters, and tap that. Now in there, you'll find the Comment Filters page. And once you tap that, that will allow you to then set it up so that any comments on your page will automatically be filtered out. And then you can approve them.

Now this will make sure that trolls can't post whatever they want on your comments. I posted a TikTok zooming out from my glorious beard before. I got no comments, but if I did, I would want to make sure that they were all good. And so this is what this is essentially going to be able to let you do so that nobody will be able to see the mean things or ugly things that people say. You, however, will still see them prior to filtering them out.

And they also introduced something to make sure that you're not a jerk to other people. Basically, if you go to post something that comes across as negative, TikTok is going to put up a little notification saying, hey, maybe don't post that. And it's going to show up if you post anything. That example that they gave was posting something that says, you're ugly, underneath someone's video. It would then say, you know, that's offensive. Don't post that, or maybe don't. You can then go ahead if you want to, but hopefully you don't.

If you do, though, then this new feature will also allow the user to filter that out. So it's one of the big things that they're doing here to prevent bullying. And obviously, on a platform with a lot of young people, that's very important.

ADAM SHAPIRO: Dan, your beard, at least on Facebook, gets a thumbs up if they still allow the thumbs up on Facebook. All right--

DAN HOWLEY: I think they do.

ADAM SHAPIRO: --we're going to be back with the closing bell right after this.

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