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TikTok failed to ban flagged 'child predator'

TikTok failed to ban flagged 'child predator'

TikTok failed to ban flagged 'child predator'
02 November 2020

TikTok's pledge to take "immediate action" against child predators has been challenged by a BBC Panorama investigation.

The app says it has a "zero tolerance" policy against grooming behaviours.

But when an account created for the programme - which identified itself as belonging to a 14-year-old girl - reported a male adult for sending sexual messages, TikTok did not ban it.

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