Thirteen-year-olds are being bombarded with “incredibly harmful” mental health content on social media including videos that experts believe could lead young teenagers to depression or suicide.
An investigation by The i Paper into social media content pushed to children set up a fictional TikTok account for a typical 13-year old boy and found within minutes the account faced a barrage of disturbing videos questioning his mental state.
Without searching for any information about mental health issues, in the course of 45 minutes, the account was pushed a range of potentially dangerous content at a rate of once every two minutes.
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/tiktok-pushing-dangerous-videos-depression-children-3475117
