In 2024, popular TikTok user Liv Schmidt was banned from the platform over her controversial weight loss posts, with many ...

TikTok blocked search results for 'Skinnytok' following a rising trend of dangerous content promoting eating disorders on the platform and concerns raised by European regulators ...

I quit TikTok to avoid eating disorder relapse. ... Eating disorder charity Beat surveyed people with eating disorders in 2022 about their experiences online and 91% of respondents said they had ...

Tom Quinn, a spokesman for eating disorder charity Beat, welcomed the ban of the "skinnytok" but said TikTok and other social media platforms "must now take steps to ensure their platforms are ...

TikTok said the platform offered a number of well-being resources as well as "strict rules against body shaming and dangerous weight loss behaviours". It added: "The platform regularly reviews its ...

TikTok is preventing users searching for "skinnytok" - a hashtag which critics say directs people towards content which ...

The social media platform TikTok recently banned a hashtag called #SkinnyTok after European regulators warned it was ...

TikTok already had guidelines in place to ban pro-eating disorder content, but content about disordered ... place after a regular review of safety measures ‘to address evolving risks’. ‘[We] have ...

TikTok no longer shows search results for the hashtag #SkinnyTok. Critics who supported this block said some videos with that label were promoting disordered eating and other unhealthy or risky ...

TikTok has banned the hashtag SkinnyTok from its platform after noting an increase in extreme weight loss and disordered eating content being posted under the hashtag. Search results for the term ...