Social media is dangerous, though we have seen that the reason why they are is to be attributed exclusively to the users. It must be said: this time TikTok, due to its poor controls, is in trouble. It all stems from a French fashion born in recent times called "French scar". Let's see what it is and why TikTok is under investigation in Italy.
The “French scar” trend is getting TikTok into trouble. The body that safeguards social media is investigating the company in Italy. Here because
This Tuesday the Italian antitrust authority announced that it has opened an investigation into the Chinese-owned app TikTok, as it appears to violate its rules by allowing the publication of "dangerous content" that incites suicide, self-harm and bad eating habits. The investigation involves the Irish unit of the social network, head of European customer relations, as well as the UK and Italy divisions, the watchdog said in a statement. The Italian tax police visited the Italian headquarters of the application on Tuesday.
TikTok, owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, is facing stricter regulation, with one growing international concern for the possibility that the Chinese government may have access to users' location and contact data.
According to the Italian authority, there are numerous videos on the platform young people who engage in self-harming behavior, like the recent “French scar” challenge that went viral. The new trend seeks to inflict a small wound on the face, just below the eye, for imitate the violent and aggressive look of French gangsters. To do this, many teenagers squeeze the cheekbone itself so that the capillaries under the skin break and the red bruise appears.
The “watchdog” claimed that “there is no adequate supervision of the contents published by third parties” and that the application violates TikTok guidelines, which require the removal of dangerous content. Furthermore, the antitrust body criticizes the abuse of artificial intelligence techniques capable of "causing undue conditioning" of TikTok users.
