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October 12, 2025Open Access

Towards an Automated Framework to Audit Youth Safety on TikTok

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LXLinda XueFCF CorsoNFNicolo' Fontana

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Overview

Analysis shows limited effectiveness of TikTok's mechanisms for protecting youth, highlighting important gaps.

Key Points

  • Preliminary findings indicate minimal differences in harmful content exposure between youth and adult accounts, raising safety concerns.
  • Over 7000 videos were analyzed to classify harmful versus non-harmful content, emphasizing youth exposure risks.
  • Simulation of interactions via sockpuppet accounts showed challenges in detection accuracy using both large language and vision-language models.
  • The research identifies the need for improved transparency in TikTok's content moderation strategies and enhanced youth safety measures.

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Xue et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68ec1be02b8fa9b2b78ad004https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.05838
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