14 April 2021
A teenager has told how he was groomed by criminals to sell heroin and crack cocaine after being recruited through a post on Snapchat.
Tagged with grooming
18 February 2021
Ten years ago we were warning parents about webcams and Chatroulette and nothing has changed.
"It's a trend now on TikTok that everyone's doing Omegle, so me and my friends thought we'd go back to it," says 15-year-old Keira from the US on video chat on the site.
"Men being gross is something me and my friends see a lot. It should be better monitored. It's like the dark web but for everyone."'
20 November 2020
A former neo-Nazi tells Sky News that video games and extremist content on social media are being used to recruit children.
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.
07 October 2020
Videos and images where children have been manipulated into recording their own abuse now make up nearly half of all the material removed from the internet by IWF analysts.
05 April 2019
Video-sharing app TikTok is failing to suspend the accounts of people sending sexual messages to teenagers and children, a BBC investigation has found.
Hundreds of sexually explicit comments have been found on videos posted by children as young as nine.
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