Spanish Investigators Slam TikTok’s Inaction on Child Abuse
The report says TikTok removed only 10% of reported illegal posts and kept 59% of flagged profiles active weeks later, according to Maldita.es.
- 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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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.
Spain: investigation finds 20,000 suspected paedophile TikTok profiles
The foundation Maldita.es reports more than 1,000 child sexual abuse videos found in 35 days of tracking. The Ministry of Youth and Children demands urgent explanations from TikTok and raises the possibility of suspending the platform.
The Spanish Ministry of Youth and Children ' s Affairs invited the Spanish Public Prosecutor ' s Office to consider suspending TikTok ' s work due to the distribution of material on sexual violence against minors, reported by EFE. The Office contacted the Public Prosecutor ' s Office following an investigation by the Maldita.es Foundation, reporting cases of sexual abuse of children reported in TikTok, transmitting to RIA New…
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Fundação española Maldita.es has collected, for 35 days, about 200 profiles that have published more than 1,000 videos and images of content of child sexual abuse" that add up to 48 million views.
During his investigation, which began publishing this Monday, Drad.es claimed to have found more than a thousand explicit videos of child sexual abuse in this social network, which had 48 million views accumulated. "What you would expect was only on the 'deep web' you find in TikTok," he said.es in his report. Contacted by AFP, TikTok did not react at the moment. According to Drad.es, who had already investigated the matter on two other occasion…
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