UK teens: harmful content seen in selected social media platforms 2022, by type
According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2022, 15 percent of TikTok users aged between 13 and 17 years had experienced anonymous trolling in the past month, and a further 15 percent had seen sexualized images on the platform. Overall, 14 percent of teenagers in the UK who used YouTube had recently seen violent or gory content, whilst one in ten respondents had seen images of diet restriction on Instagram.