EU regulators probe SkinnyTok trend on TikTok

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TikTok is both a blessing and a curse. There’s no doubt this platform is rife with misinformation and conspiracy theories. But on the other, more wholesome side of the app, you can find things like dance challenges, lip syncs, beauty tutorials, and, of course, plenty of cooking and food content. And much of the latter is actually pretty handy—especially when it comes to reducing waste in the kitchen. Here, we’ve gathered a few of our favorite Ti…

Injunctions to control his diet, under the hashtag #skinnytok, could worsen eating disorders.

TikTok’s ‘SkinnyTok’ trend is under fire from EU regulators

The European Commission is coming for “SkinnyTok.” EU regulators are investigating a recent wave of social media videos that promote extreme thinness and “tough love” weight-loss advice, assessing whether TikTok is doing enough to protect children online, per Politico. France’s minister for digital media, Clara Chappaz, recently reported #SkinnyTok to both the French media regulator Arcom and the EU. “These videos promote extreme thinness. Prote…

The Commission on the psychological effects of the video application organises a large citizen consultation until 31 May 2025. It takes the form of an online questionnaire.

The phenomenon by which extreme weight loss is promoted among young people spread immediately. Hundreds of young women in France film themselves while boasting that they managed to lose weight either through starvation or through sports to exhaustion. After the Internet was studded with such videos, the French government decided to turn to the help of the European Commission, because the phenomenon is spreading slightly to other states in the Un…

EU regulators probe SkinnyTok trend on TikTok

The European Commission will assess whether TikTok is doing enough to stop harmful content connected to eating disorders.