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.
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.
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
Actual nudity was never allowed on tiktok. But kink is fine.
The difference I suppose is deliberately looking for it vs the algorithm feeding it to them