TikTok Promotes Harmful Weight-Normative Messaging, New Study Finds
TikTok.Photo: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty A study published Tuesday in the science journalPLOS Oneanalyzed 1,000 videos on the social media platform across 10 popular food-, fitness- and nutrition-related hashtags, each with over 1 billion views since 2020. The videos were reviewed to determine key themes, including “the glorification of weight loss, the positioning of food to achieve health and thinness, and the lack of expert voices providing nutrition information....