Posted on 06/24/2025 2:19:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The social media platform TikTok recently banned a hashtag called #SkinnyTok after European regulators warned it was promoting unrealistic body images and extreme weight loss. The company had seen an onslaught of content featuring emaciated-looking young women peddling tips on how to drop weight quickly.
Now the hashtag may be gone, but eliminating this kind of harmful content is not that simple. There's still no shortage of people — on TikTok and other social media platforms — spreading unhealthy information on how to eat fewer calories and get very, very thin.
Research shows that consuming this type of content on social media is correlated to a higher risk of disordered eating. Young women and girls are especially vulnerable.
But when it comes to nutrition and wellness, it can be hard to disentangle the unhealthy from the healthy.
"You have many kinds of content in the gray zones," says Brooke Erin Duffy, who studies social media and culture at Cornell University. "Their regulation is much more difficult."
Creators are good at taking advantage of this murky ground, says Duffy. "As soon as there is an attempt for platforms to regulate or thwart a hashtag, anyone using the platform is gonna develop a workaround," she says.
A popular meme called "What I eat in a day," for example, features people showing their daily food intake. Posts can either feature a balanced diet or one that could put someone in a dangerous calorie deficit. One young woman recently posted a video showing the single croissant she subsisted on in a day, whereas a different woman featured a balance of lean proteins and vegetables adding up to 1,800 calories.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Eating healthy is probably one of, if not the most, important thing you make money for.
If you can’t eat healthy, reconsider what your money is being spent on.
TikTok is a Chinese spy program. Don’t ever expect them to send anything to the US that would MAGA.
In that case, it ought to be outlawed.
“Don’t ever expect them to send anything to the US that would MAGA.”
In the last election it was a hotbed of MAGA content. It especially contributed to the huge increase of black males voting for Trump. It’s pretty obvious you haven’t used it and are just repeating Tom Cotton or Fox news.
It’s a massively superior product to anything made by Zuckerberg, better than instagram or Facebook by far.
Move to Biafra.
Sure as long all the info you put on TikTok you don’t mind sharing with China.
Yeah, I guess I’m much safer to send it to Facebook and Fairfax County Virginia. Thanks for the hot tip! lol
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.