Tiktok earns on sexual streams with juveniles, finds out BBC – BBC News in Serbian

Young women from Kenya speak for BBC to use tiktok to sell sexual content since the teenagers were

Tiktok earns live streams that lead teenage girls with only 15 years old, it was said to the BBC.

We talked to three women in Kenya who said they started this activity as a teenager.

They told us that they used ticktok to openly advertise explicit content and negotiate to pay for it, and that it would then be sent to clients through other messaging platforms.

The tiktok forbids underpass, but the company knows that it happens, moderators for BBC said.

Tiktok takes a percentage of about 70 percent for all streams live, we discovered earlier.

The ticktok said for the BBC that it has a « zero tolerance for exploitation ».

Streams live from Kenya are popular in tiktok – every night during the working week, we found a dozen streams in which the performers suggested the people of the entire world.

WARNING: Following the content of sexual nature

Two hours are in Nairobi, and Tiktok Lavs was doing full steam.

The music shifts, and users are four over the other, while the woman turns the camera on himself as « twinkles » or real provocative pose.

Then the screen starts twisting the emoji « gifts ».

« Write to me in the inbox for the Chinese, guys. Tap, Tap, » speak performers over and over again.

« TAP, TAP » is a term that is often used in tiktok, calling the viewers to « bark » live live.

« The Chinese » is « clitoris » on Swahili.

« Write to me in the Inbox » is the viewer’s instructions to send a private message across tiktok with more explicit exclusive content – such as looking at the performer while masturbating, it performs striptease or embarks in sexual activities with other women.

Streams live from Kenya are popular in tiktok – every night during the working week, we found a dozen streams in which the performers danced suggestive, and hundreds of people from all over the world were watched.

Some used coded sexual slang for advertising sex services.

Emoji gifts serve as payment for streams live on tiktok – because tiktok removes all obvious sexual ranks and nudity – as well as for more explicit contents sent later through other platforms.

Gifts can be replaced for cash.

« It’s not in Tiktok’s interest in taking a session of sex, the more people are gifts for tiktok, » said former Kenyan moderator we will call for Joe, which tiktok claims to employ them throughout the world.

We found that ticktok still takes about 70 percent of gifts stake in streams live.

The company has denied taking such a high commission after we established the same percentage in investigation from 2022. years.

Tiktok has long been aware of the exploitation of children in streams live – after conducting its own internal investigations in 2022. years – but ignored the problem, according to claims from the lawsuit, which the American Federal State of Jut last year.

Tiktok replied that the lawsuit – whose process was in progress – ignored « proactive measures » he has taken to improve security.

Kenya is the focus of this abuse, says the Child Fantage Kenya’s charity, and that is further worsened by young demographic groups and widespread use of the Internet.

The African continent as a whole has a bad online moderation compared to Western countries, an organization added.

Joe, who worked for teleperformans – under contract with tiktok to provide moderation of content – says moderators receive a manual with prohibited sexual words or deeds.

But this guide is limited, Joe says, and does not take into account slang or other provocative gestures.

« You can see in the way they posing, with a camera on their necklace and thighs (for example), they sell sex. They may not see anything to direct their account on another platform, but I can’t do anything here. »

Another moderator of the TeleforFans content, which we will call Kelvin, says that the moderation is also limited by a greater dependence of tiktok from artificial intelligence (AI), which he says is not enough sensitive to register local Sex Sexual Slang.

Joe and Kelvin are among the seven current and former moderators of content in the content in Tiktok, and who expressed concern to us.

Joe says that about 80 percent of the streams are marked in the moderator content as sexual, or advertising sexual services, and tiktok is aware of the proportions of this problem.

Channah Kenny and other charities said for the BBC that even children from only nine years of age participate in these activities.

We talked to teenagers and young women who say they spend six to seven o’clock at night at these activities and earn an average of £ 30 per day – enough to pay food and transport for the week.

« I’m selling on tiktok. I dance naked. I’m doing it because I can make money to support myself, » says the 17th year we will call Esther.

She lives in a poor neighborhood in Nairobi, where 3,000 inhabitants share toilets.

She says that money helps her buy food for a child and supporting a mother who has problems paying the rent since Esther’s father died.

Ester says she was for the age of 15 she met her with tiktok lipy and helped her bypassing the limit for ages – only older than 18 can use a lion.

Users also need at least 1,000 followers to start broadcasting live.

And thus ticket users with many followers can act as digital pimps – organizing live streams that sell sexual content.

Some of them have spare orders, indicating that Tiktok had already banned or suspended them in the past.

They act as if they know how to avoid detection from the moderator of content in tiktok, at the same time generating the right amount of sexual enforcement to arouse the interest of customers.

« When you dance, get away from the camera, otherwise you will be blocked, » the pimp on the woman who twists on the screen shouts.

In exchange for hosting, women give pimps a percentage of their earnings.

This relationship can quickly become exploitative, ESTER says.

She says her digital pimp knew that she was younger than 18 and yes « likes to use young girls ».

She put pressure on her to earn more – which meant she had to stream more often – and she took a higher percentage of earnings than she expected, she said. She says. She says.

« So if someone sends Emodi, which is 35,000 Kenyan Shillings (259 euros), then takes 20,000 Kenyan Shilngs (148 euros), and only 15,000 Kenyan Shillings remain to you.

Working for him was like she was wearing « foxes, » she says.

« You are you who suffer because he gets the most part, and you are the one that is most exploited. »

« Sofi », she is not the right name, who says she was also 15 when she started livastrima on tiktok, says she received requests from people from Europe for services to

Third Party platforms, among them from a German user who would demand to caress the chests and genitals for money.

Now, at the age of 18, she complains about the online work she practiced.

Some of the recordings she sent to users across other platforms were placed on social networks without her approval, she says.

Her neighbors found out about it and warned other young people not to hang out with her, she said for the BBC.

« They sign me like a misconception, and they speak young people as I deceived them. Most of the time I spend myself. »

Some of the girls and women we talked to said that they were also paid to happen to the users of tiktoka for sex live, or it was put pressure on them to have sex with pimps.

Tiktok has a great desire to impose in the African markets, but it does not employ enough staff for efficient moderation of content, we were told by moderators from Kenya.

The Kenyan government has shown signs that it is aware of this problem – 2023. The President William Ruto held a meeting with the Executive Director of Tiku Šouu Žiža Žuoma to call for better moderation of content on the platform.

The government said that the company agreed to strive regulations, and the ticket of tantok in Kenya was to coordinate those operations.

But the moderators we told me with said, more than 18 months later, that none of that happened.

Teleperforms replied that their moderators « work valuable on the tagging and labeling of community and client guidelines » and that their client systems are not set to remove the content that violates the regulations or reports to the Agencies for the Implementation of Order and Law.

A spokesman of tiktok said for the BBC:

« Tiktok has a zero tolerance policy. We are conducting strict policy of contents in Livs, which includes Swahili, and we are partnershiped with local Africa’s underwashed advisory body so that we can constantly strengthen our approach. »

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