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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    13 hours ago

    But, I also wonder if people are using meta or x platforms to do the exact same thing?

    Absolutely. And they’re using Youtube, Fediverse platforms, old-fashioned forums, and anything else that you can have user-generated content posted on it.

    TikTok is being singled out because the real story of ‘every platform has CSAM and CSAM for sale’ is not very palatable for the oligarchs that own the platforms, and it’s much simpler to point to a foreign-owned platform as “the problem” and not the ones they run/invest in.