TikTok failing to remove nearly all accounts reported for advertising drugs, study finds

TikTok failed to take action over the vast majority of reports made against accounts advertising and offering illegal drugs for sale to UK users, a new study has found.

Researchers flagged hundreds of accounts for selling either cocaine, synthetic-cannabinoid e-cigarette liquids, or marketing themselves as “UK pharmacies”, to TikTok’s user-reporting system from February to July of this year.