TikTok doesn't comment on individual accounts for privacy reasons. It says it has very strict minor safety policies and encourages all of its content moderators to abide by them. But there are any number of so-called vigilante parents who've taken it upon themselves to try to police TikTok. They flag videos they say violate the app's rules.
Bloomberg Investigative reporter Olivia Carville has spent months delving into TikTok, the hugely popular video social network. In November, she joined the podcast to talk about children who have died copying dangerous video challenges of the kind that can be seen on the app. Today, Olivia is back to talk about her latest story about TikTok for Bloomberg Businessweek.
It follows the life of a 16-year-old girl from Florida whose provocative videos have won her millions of followers–and many detractors who say TikTok shouldn’t allow this kind of content from minors on the platform.
Learn more about this story here: https://bloom.bg/3Ph6mJz
Listen to the first conversation with Olivia about TikTok’s problem moderating the dangerous challenges HERE.
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