![]() “Not only does it happen on their platform, but quite often it leads to other platforms-where it becomes even more dangerous.”Īdair first discovered the “posting-in-private” issue in March, when someone who was logged into the private TikTok account made public a video of a pre-teen “completely naked and doing inappropriate things” and tagged Adair. ![]() ![]() “There's quite literally accounts that are full of child abuse and exploitation material on their platform, and it's slipping through their AI,” said creator Seara Adair, a child sexual abuse survivor who has built a following on TikTok by drawing attention over the past year to exploitation of kids happening on the app. minors now use the app at least once a day-has made the pervasiveness of the issue alarming enough to pique the interest of state and federal authorities. (Its parent, Meta, declined to comment.) But TikTok’s soaring popularity with young Americans- more than half of U.S. The problem of closed social media spaces becoming breeding grounds for illegal or violative activity is not unique to TikTok groups enabling child predation have also been found on Facebook, for example. The sheer volume of post-in-private accounts that Forbes identified-and the frequency with which new ones pop up as quickly as old ones are banned-highlight a major blind spot where moderation is falling short and TikTok is struggling to enforce its own guidelines, despite a “zero tolerance” policy for child sexual abuse material. The reporting, which followed guidance from a legal expert, uncovered how seamlessly underage victims of sexual exploitation and predators can meet and share illegal images on one of the biggest social media platforms on the planet. But a Forbes investigation found that’s precisely what’s happening. ![]() TikTok’s security policies explicitly prohibit users from sharing their login credentials with others. ![]()
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