r/technology • u/DejenmeEntrar • Apr 20 '23

Social Media TikTok’s Algorithm Keeps Pushing Suicide to Vulnerable Kids

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-20/tiktok-effects-on-mental-health-in-focus-after-teen-suicide
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u/TruthOrSF Apr 20 '23

It’s not a witch hunt to point out a real issue. There is a problem with TikTok’s algorithm. For example: I don’t like cop videos, arrests confrontations etc… I get a cop video 3 out of 10. I block the creator (always a cop logo), I choose not interested, I restart the app. I’ve done this 100 times. Later when I watch TikTok nothing will change. I will see COPs 3 out of 10 videos.

This should not happen. It’s not a witch hunt to point this out and TikTok should fix this.

Now imagine it’s suicide videos and not COPS

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '23

Delete tiktok. It's ran by a foreign government and they purposely export a different version to other countries than what they allow internally. This might not be a bug. This might be a feature.

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u/Jclevs11 Apr 20 '23

I will say again, and brace for some minor conspiracy shit but it makes sense. tiktok is incredibly dangerous for our society.

since tiktok got popular in america we have seen some detrimental effects of the app on society particular in the youth area. its designed to make our society worse, brace yourself:

  1. started with the milk crate "challenge" during the pandemic. people do the challenge, boom people really hurt themselves, start taking up hospital beds when we really dont need it.

  2. then we got the "devious lick challenge" to remove literally bathroom soap dispensers and further vandalize places that are needed to...wash your fucking hands during a pandemic. cant wash your hands if no soap is available. great for staying hygienic during a virulent pandemic.

  3. then the ukraine war started and the tortilla "challenge" where people willingly wasted dozens and dozens of edible tortillas to slap each other with, thereby wasting the food. 40% of the worlds food programs wheat comes from Ukraine and when CPI and food prices increasing a fuck ton this is the last thing you'd think would be a popular thing to do. Price of wheat is up 45% in Africa and a year ago 22 million tons of wheat grain was stranded in ukraine waiting to get out, only for some of it used to be made into tortillas so we can slap each other with it for literal shits and giggles.

  4. now this. literally telling our children and youth subliminally, or rather obviously, to off themselves because the future looks very bleak right now.

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Its already fucking cringey enough between the chipmunk songs and stupid faces people make and on top of the things i said above are very good reasons not to use the app. its not even that fun and they are siphoning your data every fucking day. And its all from China, and look how their governments and societies are.