For years, Instagram ads that promoted child sexual abuse material, some of them featuring AI-generated imagery, and was ordered by the Indian social media apps. The latest addition to this sordid chain of events is TikTok.
According to research conducted by the UK’s Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE) and Australia’s Collective Shout, TikTok has become a funnel for promoting adult content hosted on platforms such as OnlyFans. Titled “The TikTok to OnlyFans Pipeline: How TikTok is promoting, normalising and glamourising the sex industry,” the report is the result of a year-long investigation into how OnlyFans is being normalized on the platform.
