TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

How TikTok profits off dangerous health trends

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How TikTok profits off dangerous health trends

TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

On TikTok Shop, influencers are profiting by promoting sketchy health trends in order to sell products.

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1 year ago
A 14 year old died in Ireland by taking part in some aerosol spray challenge. An absolute pity, kids do stupid shit all the time, we shouldn’t be enabling the proliferation of the stupid trends.

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