The Government is facing calls to amend the Online Safety Bill to ban all eating disorder-related material on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, amid concerns the new legislation will fail to protect vulnerable adults from harmful content
Baroness Morgan also warned that the “echo chamber” on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram means vulnerable adults are often sent down the rabbit hole even if they try to avoid it.
She said in a Parliamentary debate last month: “In the real world, for a young person struggling with an eating disorder, their inner demons are not reinforced by everyone they meet on the street. But algorithms are echo chambers.” TikTok amended its community guidelines earlier this year to toughen up its stance on eating disorder-related content. It means videos that promotes unhealthy eating behaviours or habits are “not allowed” on the platform, and moderators work to take them down.by dressing up content as recovery-related and using coded hashtags, in some cases co-opting the name of British singer Ed Sheeran.
“People over the age of 18 are still vulnerable. The age restriction feels a plaster; it feels like a pretence of responsibility,” she told“I don’t think we can put that responsibility on people who are unwell. There’s a real lack of understanding to this day about the element of compulsion that comes with eating disorders.”
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