mona and her daughters go live for two or three hours at a time, several times a day. to go live on tiktok, you need at least 1,000 followers. then, when you re live, users can send digital gifts to reward creators for content they like. these gifts are bought with real money, ranging from roses, which cost a few cents, to lions and universes, which cost around $500 each. the gifts are converted
priority is to ensure that their community is treated with fundamental dignity and respect, and what ijust saw is exactly the opposite of that. what responsibility does tiktok have towards these people, these families, these children? well, tiktok has a responsibility under the un guiding principles on business and human rights. it s hard to see, first of all, how tiktok is ensuring that the rights and dignity of these communities is being ensured. they state clearly that users are not allowed to solicit explicitly gifts. so, this is a clear violation of their own terms of services, not let alone, of course, the rights of those people. most of the accounts we followed regularly went live, with children begging for hours at a time. tiktok s guidelines say, we prohibit activities that
of territory in the east of the country. they re advancing east of the city of lyman. president putin has announced heightened security measures across russia and declared martial law in the four unlawfully occupied regions of ukraine. president biden says the us will sell off a further 15 million barrels of crude oil from its emergency supplies. the release is meant to prevent prices rising after the oil producing nations, led by saudi arabia, said they would cut production. now, bbc news investigates a new trend on tiktok hundreds of families in refugee camps in syria begging for gifts on tiktok livestreams. there s a new trend on tiktok.
they pay to agencies. so, we repeated our experiment with accounts in the uk and syria that weren t signed up to agencies, and found that tiktok took just under 70% every time. most of tiktok s downloads come from apple s app store and google play. both of these have codes of conduct that say apps that facilitate the exploitation of children will be removed or rejected. we asked them what they were doing about children begging on tiktok, but neither apple nor google would comment on our investigation. hi, how are you? welcome, welcome, welcome! after all of our conversations that we ve had with tiktok and i m sitting here right outside their uk offices now i m still finding videos like this many, many videos with children being used to beg for hours. and it really makes me want to know what will it take for tiktok to stop this
revenue they generate for the business, the more information they glean from its users in terms of how the algorithm works. in your video, it s obviously prolonging the pain for somebody that already is in a desperate situation. we wanted to put these allegations to tiktok and asked them for an interview. instead, they gave us this statement: tiktok said it removed the accounts that violated its community guidelines and ended its contract with the agency giant mena. we asked giant mena, but they didn t respond. as for tiktok, they told us they don t take 70% of profits from live gifts, but they wouldn t confirm the exact amount or what commission