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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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[-] Lemmynated@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

Funny how TikTok brings out the whataboutism. You never seen someone bring up TikTok when it’s bad press for Twitter.

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