Spanish Investigators Slam TikTok’s Inaction on Child Abuse
Maldita.es said TikTok removed just 10% of flagged posts as Spain’s government asks prosecutors to examine whether the platform should be suspended.
- On Monday, independent NGO Maldita published an investigation cataloguing more than 1,000 videos of child abuse footage on TikTok, which accumulated 48 million views.
- The report 'TikTok, a haven for paedophiles' found more than 26,000 profiles belonging to potential paedophiles, including 7,700 in Spanish, exchanging or selling child abuse material.
- Maldita CEO Clara Jiménez noted that TikTok makes abusive content available, unlike Meta, which blocks 'pizza' search terms associated with child pornography and warns users.
- On Friday, the EU ordered TikTok to change its 'harmful' For You feed design or face large fines; Maldita reported only 10 per cent of 50 flagged videos violated platform rules.
- Critics question how TikTok, owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance, fails to control this material despite generating 9.1 billion dollars in revenue across Europe and Latin America in 2025.
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The minister calls for exceptional intervention following an investigation that identified more than a thousand videos with child sexual abuse material.
One foundation reported that the platform does not do enough to prevent the exchange of illegal material.
SPAIN is investigating TikTok for more than 20,000 profiles linked to pedophilia.
An investigation by the Spanish foundation Maldita.es found more than 1,000 videos of child sexual abuse and more than 20,000 profiles of potential pedophiles on TikTok in 35 days. The Spanish Ministry of Youth and Children has demanded action from the prosecutor's office and urgent explanations from TikTok. They are not ruling out the possibility of temporarily suspending the platform in the country.
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