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TikTok video platform is now a concern after promoting diet drugs to 16-year-olds. (photo: doc. tiktok)

JAKARTA - TikTok video platform is now a concern after promoting diet drugs to 16-year-olds through a video.

The report was first discovered by researchers in The Pharmaceutical Journal. In their research, they created a new TikTok account that pretended to be a 16-year-old girl and looked for content with the hashtag #dietpills.

Then from the search results, there are more than 100 top posts. And from the video, researchers found nearly a third of the content of the video promoting diet pills to lose weight.

Under the dietary pill term, organic posts also show advertisements for epilepsy, alcohol and addiction as well as migraine drugs promoted to TikTok users, even though they are registered as girls under 16 years old.

A cure for appetite called phentermine, and a similar product is the most frequently mentioned prescription drug in posts. In fact, phentermine is not licensed for use in the UK.

Some users also make daily video diaryes when they take medication or share photos before and after showing real weight loss.

In response to these findings, The Guardian TikTok stated that the promotion or trading of controlled substances, including prescribed weight loss drugs, were not permitted on platforms and content that violated the policy would be removed.

Previously, TikTok had also been forced to remove malicious diet content on its platform in the past.

According to The Verge, Friday, September 23, a detailed report by The Wall Street Journal in 2021 shows how TikTok's algorithms show young girls diet video and weight loss, and of course this is very dangerous.

The day before the incident was published, TikTok announced it was working on diversification recommendations so users would not be flooded with a series of similar content.