With the majority of young voters not watching television news or reading the press, and the far-right and the far-left already using TikTok extensively, some politicians are getting around their country s ban on the use of the platform by using the app on separate devices
"AI manipulates and addicts our children,” Dr Johnny Ryan of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties is expected to say. "It promotes hurt, hate, self-loathing, and suicide."
According to Dr Stephen Murphy of Trinity Business School, TikTok are the most obvious winners as they take a 50% cut of the net revenue of the virtual gifts