By Stephen Beech

Dubious TikTok birth control advice is raising the risk of unwanted pregnancies for young people, warns a new study.

Researchers found that more than half of content creators on the social media platform reviewed (53%) clearly rejected hormonal birth control, while just over a third (34%) expressed distrust in health professionals.

The team analyzed 100 TikTok videos on contraceptive health that had collectively gained nearly five billion views and 14.6 million likes.

Fertility awareness and cycle tracking (38%) and the pill (35%) were the most frequently discussed subjects, according to the findings published in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health .

Lead researcher Dr. Caroline de Moel-Mandel, of La Trobe University, Australia , says Ti

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