TikTok: The Good, The Bad and The Algorithms from 5 Live News Specials

TikTok: The Good, The Bad and The Algorithms

41 minutes Posted Jul 11, 2022 at 11:56 am.

– Shiona McCallum, a BBC Technology Reporter

– Jan Gerber, CEO and founder a mental health and addiction clinic

– Mesha Moinirad otherwise known as Mr Colitis Crohn’s

– Influencer Seema Pankhania, content creator and recipe developer

Sophie O’Sullivan, in recovery from anorexia and Tom Quinn, Director of External Affairs at the Eating Disorder charity BEAT

Sam Ryder, musician and Eurovision star

Marianna Spring, BBC’s Specialist Disinformation reporter

– Zeynab Mohamed who thought she had OCD after watching videos on platforms like TikTok and clinical psychologist Jane Gilmore

– Reporter Mark Hutchings speaking to a group of 15-year-old pupils at Pen y Dre High School in Merthyr

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TikTok was founded just six years ago and is already one of the leading social media platforms, becoming the world’s most downloaded app in 2020.

It has more than one billon monthly active users and is especially popular with teens and young adults, with 42% of TikTok users aged between 18 and 24.

5 Live Breakfast has been looking at the impact of TikTok as the platform’s popularity continues to rise.TOPICS:

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