TikTok Is Flooding Vulnerable Teenage Girls With Self-Harm Content: Report

Dec 15 2022 by VICE News

TikTok’s algorithm is inundating vulnerable children as young as 13 with self-harm and eating disorder videos minutes after they join the platform and the company appears to be doing nothing to stop it, according to new research published Thursday.

The research, from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a British non-profit organization, states that TikTok’s powerful recommendation algorithm takes just 2.6 minutes to show vulnerable teenage girls content that includes explicit...

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