Jenny Po recently posted a video that was part of a TikTok trend where she's washing the new car that she just bought with her TikTok earnings. A lot of older men have been taking screenshots of her bent over the car or her in various poses that are sexually suggestive and sharing them on other social media platforms. In one particular forum, I was looking through some of these photos were being swapped and one person commented saying, guys, this is CP. The acronym for CP is Child Pawn. It also sounds from your description of her videos that some of the things described in those guidelines are in fact in those videos.
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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