China’s TikTok actively pushes pornography and other sexual content on 13-year-old users, according to researchers who created fake accounts of young teens to see what the Chinese platform’s algorithm would suggest to them.

In addition to TikTok allowing children to access pornography and sexual material, the app’s algorithm actually pushes minors toward the content, according to a report by the nonprofit investigative research organization Global Witness.

The discovery was made after researchers used “clean phones” with no search history to create TikTok accounts posing as 13-year-olds. They even activated the Chinese app’s “Restricted Mode,” which TikTok advertises as a safety feature that can be used by parents to limit the exposure of certain content for minors.

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