![]() ![]() It learns what you like and shows you more and more of it. Like all social media platforms, TikTok is optimized for engagement, algorithmically steering users to content via a “For You" page that works like if Facebook’s News Feed were curated like Netflix’s landing page. These performances are sometimes sexualized by older men who lurk on the app, sending the young creators explicit messages and, in some cases, remixing the videos and dancing along with them via a TikTok feature called “duet.”Īnd the platform doesn’t just overlook this kind of conduct, like YouTube - its core mechanics inadvertently facilitate it. One of the most popular kinds of videos from TikTok’s users, who are mostly young and female, are lip-synch videos, where they dance and sing along with their favorite songs. ![]() ![]() In an era when the failure of social media giants to police their platforms has gone from a scandal to a fact of life, an ad hoc network of young women is springing up to combat the exploitation that seems inseparable from the Chinese-owned app’s explosive success. The same mechanics that have turned TikTok into this year’s fastest-growing social media app have brought with them a dark side: sexual predation. ![]()
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