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.
I dns block TikTok and they kids aren’t allowed on any meta properties. I expect that there will be more pushback in the next couple years.
My challenge truly is figuring out how to arm them to be able to process and critically evaluate social media without exposure to it. Truth in andvertising, and recently AI.
Increasingly I think that it’s a matter of educating them about the risks, like drugs and alcohol. As if that works, unfortunately.
I truly appreciate you, you are doing a stand up job. Thank you for being a parent. I wish you could teach the other clowns in this country.
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.
Teach them mechanisms of psychological control and propaganda–how-to, so they recognize when it happens.