TikTok ‘frenzies’ fuelling anti-social behaviour ‘putting strain on police and teachers’
TikTok ‘frenzies’ fuelling anti-social behaviour are putting a strain on over-stretched public services, police and teachers’ union leaders are warning. The frenzies – where TikTok drives disproportionate amounts of engagement to potentially disturbing topics – are said to have led to obsessions with the murder of four students in the US state of Idaho that led to innocent people being falsely accused. There has also been the suggestion TikTok fanned the flames of recent riots and looting in France and London. Chief Constable Pippa Mills, the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s communications ch...