Tiktok forbids a popular sense and blocks his search results after concern that it is ‘harmful’ and promotes eating disorders

Tap has prohibited a commonly used term and blocked all its search results in the midst of concern that promotes eating disorders.

A hashtag and also a self -proclaimed online community, ‘Skinntytok’ is now censored by the social media platform for Fear IT Promotes Extreme Dunness and unhealthy weight loss Techniques.

The app for sharing videos implemented a worldwide performance on the duration of 1 June and took steps to limit all search results for the hashtag.

The company said that the new restriction is part of a ‘regular assessment’ to ‘evolving risks’ on the site, but follows their concern of European supervisors, according to the Mirror.

‘SkinnyTok’ messages are usually aimed at young women, and see makers of content that are considered by many by loss-loss techniques and guidance.

“We blocked search results for #skinnytok because it is linked to unhealthy weight loss content,” said Tiktok spokesperson Paolo Ganino in a statement last week.

Now users who search the term are forwarded to sources that offer support for mental health.

Before the ban, the contents of the hashtag reached a problematic crescendo, in which the app flooded with young women glamorous eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.

Both the European Commission and the French digital regulator Arcom have taken note and entered.

The European Commission investigated the trend after the digital minister of France insisted Clara Chappaz on an in -depth exploration of the online atmosphere and created a public petition entitled ‘Stop SkinnyTok’.

When the news about the ban broke, Clara Triumphantly wrote on X: ‘SkinnyTok is over! This is a first collective victory. I greet it.

‘The fight to protect our children online, however, does not stop there. And I will not give up. Forbidding social media for 15 is my priority. ‘

The prohibition of the platform has been extended and even suppresses searches for the term ‘Skinniertok’.

Looking for one of the two term on Tiktok asks the message: ‘You are not the only one.

‘If you or someone you know have questions about body image, food or exercise, it is important to know that there is help and you are not alone.

‘If you feel comfortable, you can trust someone you trust or view the sources below. Don’t forget to take care of yourself and each other. ‘

There is also a helpline number and a link to the safety center of the platform of the platform.

As many app users and content makers soon indicate, prohibiting the term is a victory, but not an absolute measure.

Similar hashtags have been suppressed for safety reasons, but users have turned out to be Savvy when avoiding the guidelines and making alternative search terms, even if this means in code.

Nevertheless, social media platforms are forced to take steps to protect the well -being of young and influenceable app users.

According to the online security law, which will come into effect this summer, social media companies will have to respond to and remove harmful content faster.

They will have to ensure that they introduce a rigorous age control and take steps to tame dangerous algorithms.

And according to the safety codes of Ofcom that were published last week, technology companies must start assessing the risk of damage to children on their platforms.

These protections will be legally enforceable from next month, and companies that do not meet can be confronted with serious penalties.

Before the prohibition: ‘Don’t reward yourself with food, you are not a dog’ was one of the so -called confirmations that SkinnyTok wipe.

Spicy sentences, inspired by Kate Moss’s controversial ‘nothing tastes so good As Skinny says to say, have become synonymous with restrictive diets who were promoted.

And while the body positive movement of the years 2010 wanted to celebrate different bodies, it seems that Gen Z is consumed by ‘glow-up culture’ that is reminiscent of the 90s.

Storage behind a facade of shiny practice equipment and Tupperware salads, the hashtag associated with more than half a million messages on TIKTOK Promotes 1000 calories diets and extreme exercise challenges.

Sophia Healy, who struggled with Anorexia for six years, said that social media helped her eating disorder – and fears that this will have a similar impact on young girls.

The 27-year-old said MailOnline: ‘Social media 100 percent glamor is glamor.

‘You get a few girls who talk about lean and what they eat to stay lean, as if being lean is all and endless, you have to be lean to be happy.

‘And then you get other people who constantly show what they eat in one day, but it is the absolute minimum, but you clearly see it as a consumer and think I have to eat the way they look like them.

“There was a time when Curvy was considered” Better. ” I followed influencers who preached body positive and now they have suddenly become really skinny. ‘

For more information about eating disorders, go to the Beat Charity website: https://www.beaedededdisorders.org.uk.