Over the course of this study, researchers found 56 TikTok hashtags hosting eating disorder videos with over 13.2 billion views.
TikTok recommends self-harm and eating disorder content to some users within minutes of joining the platform, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate .
TikTok, which was globally launched by Chinese company ByteDance in 2017, and operates through algorithms informed by personal data — likes, follows, watch-time, interests of a user — has become the world's fastest growing social media app, reaching aThe CCDH report details how TikTok's algorithms refine the videos shown to users as the app gathers more information about their preferences and interests.
When the"loseweight" account was compared with the standard, the researchers found that"loseweight" accounts were served three times more overall harmful content, and 12 times more self-harm and suicide specific videos than the standard accounts. The video insinuating attempting suicide amassed 386,900 likes. The report also featured a video of a teen girl crying, with words on the screen reading:"You're not thinking of taking your life right?" And then making reference to a TV character named, Sarah Lynn, who in the Netflix animated series"Bojack Horseman" dies from an overdose. That video received 327,900 likes. And another with a link to PrettyScale.
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