TikTok may push potentially harmful content to teens within minutes, study finds

Photo by Julia M Cameron via Pexels. Article by Samantha Murphy Kelly. CNN: Business – updated December 15, 2022.

CNN — TikTok may surface potentially harmful content related to suicide and eating disorders to teenagers within minutes of them creating an account, a new study suggests, likely adding to growing scrutiny of the app’s impact on its youngest users. In a report published Wednesday, the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that it can take less than three minutes after signing up for a TikTok account to see content related to suicide and about five more minutes to find a community promoting eating disorder content. […]

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