Despite platform’s limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggested

Despite platform’s limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggested

TikTok has directed children’s accounts to pornographic content within a small number of clicks, according to a report by a campaign group.

Global Witness set up fake accounts using a 13-year-old’s birth date and turned on the video app’s “restricted mode”, which limits exposure to “sexually suggestive” content.

Researchers found TikTok suggested sexualised and explicit search terms to seven test accounts that were created on clean phones with no search history.

  • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Increasingly I think that it’s a matter of educating them about the risks, like drugs and alcohol. As if that works, unfortunately.

    i mean just because our generations (i’m assuming you’re somewhere within 20 years of me) completely fucked that up via overexaggerating risks doesn’t mean we have to do that to the next ones. we can fuck up in our own special way.