Sex, drugs and TikTok: keeping young people safe needs a mature response, not a moral panic

Image caption: While some TikTok content creators advocate drug use, others offer constructive health advice. Gras Grun / Unsplash, CC BY-SA. Article by Isabelle Volpe and Clare Southerton. The Conversation – October 14, 2021.

You may have read recently that TikTok allegedly “serves up” sex and drug videos to minors. Media reports have described the video-sharing platform, which is designed predominantly for young people, as an “addiction machine” that promotes harmful content. In an investigation, reporters at the Wall Street Journal created […]

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