Users are complaining that the video, which started popping up on the platform Sunday night, is ... [+] still being shared. Users are also saying that when they try to report the video, TikTok responds with a note saying that it isn’t against community guidelines (TikTok did not immediately respond to Forbes’s question about this problem). Key BackgroundThis is not the first time TikTok has struggled to deal with a suicide video circulating on its platform. Earlier this year, a 19-year-old user livestreamed his apparent suicide on TikTok and the company was criticized for waiting almost three hours to alert authorities. The number of daily TikTok users whom the company estimated to be 14 or younger, as of July 2020.

Source: Forbes September 07, 2020 21:33 UTC