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.

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    I fucking hate tiktok. Never understood how this braincaser got allowed into the EU in the first place. Maybe I am just an old angry dumbass, but when I first started using it in my marketing team back in 2019, it just shouted cancer every post I saw. This thing should never been allowed for children. Also, read the terms of the app…

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      I can’t tell if you’re being facetious or not but perhaps you don’t remember when the biggest “stars” on tiktok were 15 year olds dancing in bikinis…

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          If they showed millions of children pornography, the CEO would probably be in prison.

          As for rednote being used to amplify narratives supported by the CPC, as an American, that is preferable to any other sizable social media I have access to except discord, where the same occurs except at the behest of the US.

          At least when I report nazis on xhs, they get banned.

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    But its ok. We are making adults provide ID so they can access adult material theyre legally allowed to access- UK government.

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    Are we talking like actual porn on tiktok or just women dancing in bikinis? Because one of those used to be called the MTV channel, and the other was always being accessed by teens with a few clicks.

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      The search function immediately suggesting very rude videos and rude girls etc, probably softcore but weird to recommend to accounts set up as 13 year olds with age restrictions

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      The problem is that they’re being served adult content despite the site knowing they’re underage, so age verification wouldn’t help at all… If anything, this is a demonstration as to why age verification isn’t a good solution.

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        If anything, this is a demonstration as to why age verification isn’t a good solution.

        Won’t stop surveillance state bad actors from arguing exactly the opposite, though.

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    Guardian minimises Israeli genocide while holding Russia to account as it should

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    I didn’t think that this needed to be said, but I suppose it does.

    IT IS NOT OK TO FUCK CHILDREN,PULL YOUR DICK OUT AND DO STUFF TO THEM WITH IT OR MAKE THEM DO STUFF WITH YOUR DICK. IT IS NOT OK TO LURE KIDS IN WITH THE END GOAL OF FUCKING OR MOLESTING THEM. THIS IS VERY BAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IT. RICH WHITE PEOPLE, THIS IS MAINLY FOR YOU.

    There, I hope that helps.