MiniTrue: ByteDance Censors’ List of 5,241 Sensitive Terms

The following is an introduction to and contextualization of some of the specific entries and broader categories included in CDT’s archived “ByteDance Lexicon of Sensitive Terms.” The lexicon, which contains some 5,241 “sensitive” words and phrases subject to review by ByteDance internal content moderators, derives from a larger tranche of internal content-review documents that date […]