Self-harm challenges on TikTok cause concern and become a police case in Italy

 “Countless videos of young people adopting self-harm behaviors” have appeared on the Chinese network TikTok, such as the recent challenge to mark their faces with the so-called “French scar”, which went viral, according to the Competition Authority, an Italian antitrust organization.

This challenge, taught in TikTok tutorials, involves pinching your cheekbones so hard and for so long that you need to leave a bruise, but it can leave permanent marks, a dangerous practice according to doctors.

TikTok is in the crosshairs of Italian authorities for failing to implement adequate systems to monitor content, “especially in the presence of particularly vulnerable users, such as minors”.

TikTok did not “enforce its own rules, which include the removal of dangerous content related to challenges, suicides, self-harm and eating disorders”, emphasizes the authority in a press release.

Owned by Chinese giant ByteDance, TikTok is also targeted by many countries for security reasons.

(With AFP)

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