TikTok profiting from sexual livestreams involving children, BBC told | BBC News


TikTok profiting from sexual livestreams involving children, BBC told | BBC News


With its dancing challenges and comedy sketches, it’s no surprise why TikTok is popular with young Kenyans.

It’s also a way for them to make money through the app’s gifting service.

But there’s a darker side, where young women – and girls as young as 15 – are selling sexual content on livestreams, with some being recruited by…

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  1. Like FB and Whatsapp doesn't do that 💩 that's why I've deleted FB and keep blocking messages on Whatsapp since FB took over WhatsApp has become a scamming app and this shit

  2. I dont know about children but there are lots of adults doing this.. i reported many times to TikTok but the report always they sent is we have not seen any content against our regulations. In tiktok live lots of users do anything for gifts . There should be regular monitoring on this site.

  3. Similar things occur on nearly EVERY social media platform. These behaviours, and willing audiences for them, exist everywhere, and I don't think you can design a service which is entirely immune to them. The best you can do is implement a robust and efficient moderation apparatus to identify and remove such content where it appears.

  4. TikTok is not used for unappropriate sexual abuse it’s disgusting. It’s used for different stuff like funny videos,so on so on TikTok has to be more stricter,