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.
One more lever to force age verification / personal identification of users.
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.
Won’t stop surveillance state bad actors from arguing exactly the opposite, though.
You’re absolutely right, but it’s not like facts matter anymore in this regard.