Key findings
The research shows that just after 10 minutes on TikTok, with low-level engagement with harmful content, effectively triggered TikTok's algorithm to target our researcher's 13-year-old accounts with content explicitly promoting suicide and violence.
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Apr 4, 2023 · Up to 1.4m children under 13 use app, watchdog finds – and experts say they are being flooded with harmful content to promote addiction.
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Nov 7, 2023 · TikTok's content recommender system and its invasive data collection practicespose a danger to young users of the platform by amplifying ...
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“TikTok can lead a child to engage in a dangerous activity in the form of a challenge, lead to shorter attention spans, and expose them to constant negative ...
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Posted: Apr 20, 2023
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Apr 20, 2023 · In more than 65 cases, the center alleges that social media products have caused sleep deprivation, eating disorders, drug addiction, depression ...
Mar 19, 2024 · Critics say the app is uniquely harmful to children and deadly in some cases. “It would be unwise to fail to acknowledge that what we're ...
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Dec 15, 2022 · A new NGO report released Thursday claims TikTok's algorithm targets "vulnerable teens" and recommends "harmful" content to them, sometimes as ...
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Posted: Apr 27, 2023
Posted: Apr 27, 2023
Dec 15, 2022 · TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicide and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an ...
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