May 2020 – The popular video-sharing app TikTok has been labeled a hunting ground for sexual predators. On the app, predators can comment on a child’s posted content and privately solicit the child to perform sexual acts.
According to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a recent survey of 40,000 schoolchildren found 25% of them have live-streamed with a stranger. The NSPCC also discovered that 1 child in 20 was asked to undress.
TikTok does not keep children safe from sexual exploitation or abuse. For this reason, it also appears on National Center for Sexual Exploitation’s 2020 Dirty Dozen list of organizations that enable sexual exploitation.
