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TikTok, Instagram settings fed harmful content to children, group says (update*)

By Frank Hersey and Patricia Figueiredo ( August 19, 2025, 16:41 GMT | Insight) -- TikTok and Instagram were showing suicide and self-harm content at an “industrial scale” in the run-up to the implementation of parts of the UK Online Safety Act to protect children in July, the Molly Rose Foundation says. Both platforms have buttons that enable children to request more harmful content to be included in their feeds, the report said. Meta and TikTok disputed the methodology in the suicide prevention campaign group's report, and said 99 percent of the content they remove is tackled before users flag it.Instagram and TikTok's settings enabled them to show suicide and self-harm content to children on an “industrial scale” in the run-up to the implementation of parts of the UK online safety law that aims to safeguard young people in July, the Molly Rose Foundation said today....

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