TikTok to ban videos encouraging tanning
TikTok has announced that it will actively ban all videos from the platform that encourages tanning and sunburn after Australian medical experts raised concerns over the recent TikTok trend, #sunburnchallenge. Co-medical directors Prof Georgina Long and Prof Richard Scolyer from Melanoma Institute Australia, warned the public at the National Press Club, how content creators on TikTok had been glamorizing sunburns with tagines and hashtags. Long insisted the company, television stations, and influencers took action to “change the cultural narrative around sunburn and tanning ” in Australia, since it faces the highest skin cancer incidence and mortality rate in the world. TikTok immediately responded by launching a widespread education campaign that will impose a pop-up banner for anti- tanning content and for all searches related to sunburns and tans. Read More Elon Musk says Apple never considered removing Twitter from App Store The campaign intends to target users ...