they also go live on tiktok every evening. they have made money from tiktok, but they know others are profiting from their work. we showed the videos to a non profit called access now that protects people s rights online. of course, people have the right to go online and share their stories, share the miserable conditions they re living in, try to seek support and sympathy. when i looked at tiktok s website, they publicly state that their number one
to a virtual currency that you can withdraw as cash. they ve got a private jet. that s why they re happy. they re really happy. they re celebrating. we wanted to find out how people who ve lost everything in syria s civil war were suddenly all able to broadcast on tiktok. the person filming mona s livestream is hamid, who also lives in the camp and sold his livestock to buy the phone. now, he works with 12 different families and he s known in the camp as a tiktok middleman.
we found kiosks selling them near the camp that explains why tiktok users in the uk had been seeing these livestreams and even joining in. big up, my syrian brother, man. big up, my brother, man. thanks, abdullah. let s go. there must have been about 50,000 people that came on my live, and the kids seemed so happy. and even though the man had his legs blown off and he had his arm blown off, he was the most positive guy you could ever meet or speak to. keith used to be a professional rugby player and has nearly a million followers on tiktok. he donated £300, around $350 in tiktok gifts, to a family in syria, and he encouraged his followers to do the same. i love you. i love you, thank you. they was calling me muscle man and stuff and he was going through google translate saying, my kids love you. they love your hair, love it. and itjust the buzz, the energy was fantastic. i probably think over
perpetuate the abuse, harm, endangerment, or exploitation of minors on tiktok. we reported more than 30 accounts using children for begging in the app to see what tiktok would do about this. at the time, tiktok said there was no violation for every single one of them and the videos remained live. matt navarra is a social media consultant and analyst. why do you think tiktok is placing so much emphasis on the duration of these lives? tiktok has got a ferocious appetite for growth, like most social media platforms. livestreams inevitably pull people in for longer duration. the longer that they spend on the platform, the more
telling them what to say. over the past five months, we ve been following hundreds of tiktok accounts posting the same type of videos, to find out who s behind this trend. a lot of them are displaced from their homes because they re destroyed, because of the war, of what s. the last ten years in syria. 0n tiktok, people started flagging them as scams. i m sick of scams on live. exploitation of children. unacceptable. we asked mohammed, a journalist based in syria, what he had heard about it.