Tik Tok – Short-form video app TikTok has released the findings of a report specially commissioned to help better understand young people’s engagement with potentially harmful challenges and hoaxes — pranks or scams created to frighten someone — in a bid to strengthen safety on the platform.
In a statement, the company said that its social networking service had been designed to “advance joy, connection, and inspiration,” but added that fostering an environment where creative expression thrived required that it also prioritized safety for the online community, especially its younger members.
With this in mind, TikTok hired independent safeguarding agency Praesidio Safeguarding to carry out a global survey of more than 10,000 people.
The firm also convened a panel of 12 youth safety experts from around the world to review and provide input into the report, and partnered with Dr. Richard Graham, a clinical child psychiatrist specializing in healthy adolescent development, and Dr. Gretchen Brion-Meisels, a behavioral scientist focused on risk prevention in adolescence, to advise it and contribute to the study.
