Overpread weight loss, cosmetic surgery videos found in children in tiktok despite guidelines, CBS News find
Hundreds of excessive weight loss and cosmetic surgery videos are readily available for easy searches in tiktok and available from a user under 18, the violation of platform policies, CBS News received.
CBS stories have created a 15-year-old female account in the United States and found that, the hundreds of weight reductions and the cosmetic surgery videos.
When CBS news account is linked to a number of videos, the same content and is recommended in the account in Tiktok’s “Your” Feed “.
Searchable videos appear to the lightes such as, “Nothing feels better than the blank stomach,” in “my eating day” of the Videos Calories. Guidelines issued by the National National Institute of Health suggests that girls between the ages of 14 and 18 between 1,800 and 2,400 calories per day.
Many videos develop smaller body types such as domestic explorers and include Hashtag “harsh motivation” to push excessive weight loss advice.
Some of those videos include messages or stogans such as “Skinny is a symbol of a condition,” and “when you don’t say anything about food, you say yes there is skin.”
Tiktok’s Public Guidelines only allows users over 18 years old to see the content that promotes restricted, calorie, including videos that promote body weight loss or proper treatment. The platform managed by China and prevents users under the age of 18 from video viewing promoting cosmetical surgery without a warning process, and instructions that discuss the surgery surgery.
But CBS stories have received various videos by entering the basic new words in the platform, such as “Skinny,” “and” little, promoting dangerous bodies. This video has shown a picture of 39.9 kg (88 pounds) next to the heading “reductions” and hashtag “
One picture with photographs “Ana gives you wings” showing a series of models with coll bones and fruits. The word ‘Ana’ is the food abbreviation against the food Anorexia.
Answering CBS News’ study, said Tiktok spokeswoman on Thursday that was “based on a limited sample size and shows no majority of our society.”
“Tiktok does not allow the content that promotes discouraging food or overwhelming, and working with health professionals to provide services in the internal support and program.” Said spokesman.
The spokesman pointed to the research published on May by the University of Southern California, which found that most DForm’s food content in Tiktok is discussed between users about these terms.
However, the same common study, and part of the platform ‘of a large passage in both dangerous cultural governments and can be stronger to possess, “in relation to photographic ideas and food disorders.
“We know that this is not one mistake of tiktok and the children are coming to the content on the scale,” spokesman Russell Foundation, Charity of UK who works to protect young people to hurt them.
“Tiktok question, if this is not representative, then why this account [created by CBS News]Which is a child account, showing this original content, and why does it continue to recommend? ”
CBS stories also have various videos found in a user under 18 who promotes Ozempic drugs and various methods of cosmetics. That includes videos that are recommended “to you” for feeding, which improves the cosmetic surgery such as Rhinoplasty, breastfeeding, and lipositions.
In one case, the user mentioned their waist surgery included the word: “I would like to die hotter than living.”
Tiktok spokesman declined to comment directly for CBBS ‘Findings of CBBS’ issues in relation to the cosmetics surgery to be developed to their own users.
Tiktok says took a list of a few months ago to deal with criticism in the availability of very bad weight content in the platform. At the beginning of June, the platform set out the Hashtag’s search results #Skinnytok, after dragging criticized health professionals and the European shepherds. The Hashtag was mainly associated with videos that promote excessive weight loss, Calorian limitation and side speech, which are often presented as health advisory.
Tiktok spokesman also told CBS stories on Thursday to search the words or phrases like #Anorexia can lead to proper help, including information and support.
“I think we are more understandable how this content is expressed so if you block a specific Hashtag, for example, it is not far away until the same is the American Norprofit National Disorders Assordered Assorders Association [NEDA]He told CBS news.
“This will be a Renew Place to build the content guidelines, but also the private platforms and, you know, while other progress is done, it is clear that there is much that can be done,” said Marshall.
The tiktok is not the only social media platform that deals with criticism of availability of extreme weight loss.
In 2022, Reported for 60 minutes In a mature internal text from Meta who shows that the company knows its content survey on its Instagram platform that promotes excessive weight losses and promoting food disorder to young people.
At that time, the Meta, the Parent of Facebook and Instagram, refused the 60th application of Antigone Davis, “and the youth is safe online” and that the Instagram does not allow content to promote self-injury or disruption. ”
Last year, Reported for 60 minutes Whether the YouTube video platform managed by Google, most popular among teenagers, has been working on excessive weight and food infections in children.
Responding to that report, the YouTube representative said the Platform “always work on mental health professionals to analyze [its] access to decisions of youth content. “
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