Tumblr reveals reason for withdrawing its app from the app store

A couple of days ago we told you that the Tumblr application had been removed from the App Store. In its day, neither party involved gave any explanation. Although there were some media that already had assumptions about what might have been the reason why Apple made such a decision. Finally, we already know more about it thanks to the owners of the app.

Tumblr reveals the reason for the withdrawal of its app from the App Store

It seems that the reason why it was removed from the app store is that child pornography was detected due to a failure in the classification algorithms.

Tumblr disappears from the App Store

Tumblr controls the content that is uploaded to your site, in order to detect the presence of child pronography on it. Various algorithms are used for this, although there has been a failure, for which in this case it could not be detected. The company has already removed all such content found on the web, which was its first priority in this regard.

Now, they are going to focus on making the application available again in the App Store. They themselves claim that it is their top priority today. But so far they have not been able to give dates for this return.

Tumblr reiterates its commitment against child pornography. Surely they will take more measures to prevent this type of content from slipping into the web and app. At the moment, Apple has not reacted, so we do not know anything about its return to the App Store.

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