WF-RCLDPD
TikTok’s “For You” Algorithm Exposed Young Users to Pro-Eating Disorder Content
TikTok’s young users were allegedly exposed to community-guideline-violating pro-eating disorder content on their algorithmically curated “For You” page that serves videos from any user on its platform.
- Date it happened
- 2019-07-01
- Organisation involved
- TikTok
Where this came from
Attribution
This incident was imported from AI Incident Database and is used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Our additions to it — the structured fields, the translation, the checks against other reports — are published under the same licence.
This is a record of what was reported, not a finding that anyone broke the law. If it names your organisation and you believe it is wrong, the corrections process is free and open to everyone.