TikTok has become a place where targeted harassment campaigns are allowed to grow, escalate, and persist with little to no effective intervention. These are not isolated comments or one-off disagreements. They are sustained patterns of abuse involving coordinated dog-piling, false accusations, harassment disguised as “concern,” and prolonged public humiliation.

Across the platform, users have reported being subjected to:

Repeated harassment by multiple accounts over extended periods

Coordinated attacks encouraged by creators with large audiences

False and defamatory accusations left unaddressed

Mockery of disabilities, speech differences, mental health, and identity

Weaponized reporting that silences victims while abusers remain active

In numerous documented cases, individuals targeted by prolonged harassment on TikTok have expressed suicidal ideation or died by suicide after weeks or months of abuse. Despite reports, warnings, and public pleas, harmful content often remains online, while those being targeted are left without meaningful protection or human review.

TikTok’s current moderation systems routinely fail to recognize targeted harassment as a pattern, treating each report in isolation. This allows abuse to continue unchecked while algorithms amplify engagement driven by outrage and conflict. Victims are frequently penalized for responding, speaking out, or attempting to defend themselves.

This is not a question of free speech. It is a question of platform responsibility.

When a company provides the tools, amplification, and visibility that enable sustained harassment — and then ignores clear warning signs of harm — the result is preventable damage to real people’s lives. Silence, in these cases, is not neutrality. It is permission.

This petition calls on TikTok to acknowledge these failures and take immediate, concrete action to protect users from targeted harassment before more lives are lost.