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TikTok is profiting from sexual livestreams performed by teens as young as 15, the BBC has been told.

We spoke to three women in Kenya who said they began this activity as teenagers. They told us they used TikTok to openly advertise and negotiate payment for more explicit content that would be sent via other messaging platforms.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 16 points 4 months ago

Frankly, this should be a surprise to no one. I bet Instagram is full of that, too, since both platforms are almost identical nowadays.

I remember an article, I think from 2019, that showed how easy it was to find teenagers dancing for whatever those TikTok points are that they could redeem for actual cash. On a few occasions, the journo asked on stream "how old is she?", which got him insta kicked and, on another, the girl desperately tried to claim she was 18

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