Tiktok Blocks Searches For Extreme Thinness 'skinnytok' Hashtag

TikTok is preventing users searching for "skinnytok" - a hashtag which critics opportunity directs group towards contented which "idolises utmost thinness."

Content associated pinch nan hashtag includes videos showing people's work-out routines aliases what they eat successful a day.

TikTok said it had "blocked hunt results for #skinnytok since it has go linked to unhealthy weight nonaccomplishment content."

People utilizing nan hashtag will now beryllium redirected to intelligence wellness support resources instead.

According to nan US-based National Alliance for Eating Disorders, nan skinnytok hashtag has much than half a cardinal posts associated pinch it.

It says nan hashtag includes contented specified arsenic low-calorie recipes which connected nan look of it look to beforehand patient manner advice.

But nan organisation says, successful reality, it "glorifies thinness and vilifies weight gain" and "promotes disordered eating behaviours."

The inclination has caused peculiar siren successful France, wherever experts person warned of really societal media tin push susceptible young group towards processing eating disorders.

"The patients are wholly indoctrinated -- and my 45-minute play consultation is nary lucifer for spending hours each time connected TikTok," nan nutritionist Carole Copti told nan AFP news agency.

The blocking of nan hashtag has been celebrated by France's integer minister, who wrote connected societal media that "skinnytok is over" acknowledgment to lobbying by European politicians.

In its statement, TikTok said it regularly reviewed its information measures to "address evolving risks".

"We proceed to restrict videos from teen accounts and supply wellness experts and accusation successful TikTok Search," it added.

It is not nan first clip TikTok has been forced to return action complete contented which raised assemblage image concerns.

In March, it blocked so-called "chubby filters" - a viral instrumentality which made group look overweight.