Inside TikTok As the Perez Hilton Livestream Unfolded: A Timeline of Moderating a Graphic Event

For around 15 minutes on Tuesday night, blogger Perez Hilton livestreamed on TikTok with a bloody torso and a knife in hand. He seemed to be harming himself.

TikTok’s AI moderation flagged the stream within minutes, sending it to a human moderator. That person determined the video should be removed, according to a TikTok US spokesperson, but experienced technical difficulties while taking the stream down. (Wired spoke to a spokesman who called it a “moderator error,” but the company…