The farlands of TikTok 'where predators meet'

***Trigger warning: difficult discussions about sexual predators and child abuse take place in this episode.***

The TikTok farlands are what media studies professor Jessica Maddox calls “the end of the internet where things get weird. You’ve left the mainstream and taken a wrong turn.” This wrong turn is regularly just a weird, glitchy nightmare of surreal AI but there is a darker piece to this puzzle.

Presenters Alex Hudson and Chris Stokel-Walker talk to investigative journalist Katherine Denkinson about a Prospect investigation about the darker corners of TikTok.

Also in the episode, what price with ASOS's hack have on the brand? And why on either are digital price panels having a moment?

Read Kat's piece here: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/internet/telecoms/social-media/75143/they-trade-child-sex-abuse-material.-they-find-each-other-on-tiktok

Go to Kat's homepage: https://kdenkwrites.com/

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