By TikTok has issued a warning to parents and its users over a suicide video that has been embedded in a clip.
The video showing an American man taking his own life, came from a Facebook livestream and has been uploaded to various social media platforms. It is sometimes edited into other, unrelated videos.
The short-form video platform said its systems are automatically detecting and flagging the clips for violating its community guidelines.
TikTok, hugely popular with children and teenagers, suggests new videos from sources users don’t subscribe to on their ‘For You’ pages.
Kirra Pendergast, CEO of Australian cyber safety provider, Safe on Social, advised parents to keep young children off the site for the next couple of days, until all the clips had been found and removed.
