Many TikTok creators, including creators of pornography, use the platform to promote themselves and their explicit content on other platforms.
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Social media has become a mainstay in everyday life, particularly among younger generations. And some are even willing to make trade-offs to stay online.
Using a code helps distinguish youth sexual culture from that of adults and authorities.
Most young people regard reining in the big social media platforms as only part of the solution to the ‘relentless stream’ of abuse and shaming they experience online
Fears that TikTok is “serving up” drug content to impressionable users have prompted calls for all drug content to be censored on the platform. But that would remove useful health advice too.
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Surrey
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Lecturer, Digital Technology & Pedagogy, La Trobe University
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PhD Candidate, Drug Policy Modelling Program, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in British History, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate, Department of Kinesiology; Epidemiogist at Henry Ford Health, University of Windsor
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Research and Graduate Assistant, Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Windsor
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Professor, Director of the Community Health, Environment, and Wellness Lab, University of Windsor
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Assistant Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Swinburne University of Technology
