TikTok must urgently stamp out posts glorifying deadly migrant crossings, MPs demand
TIKTOK must urgently stamp out posts glorifying deadly Channel crossings, MPs have demanded.
Smuggling gangs are flogging small boat places on the popular platform — just days after six migrants drowned.
One post yesterday promised a “cheap price” and insisted traffickers were doing “very well” in getting people to Britain.
Ex-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the Government should tell the company “either you remove these posts, or you don’t operate here”.
He told The Sun: “What they’re promoting is illegal.”
Marco Longhi, a Tory member of the Home Affairs Committee, added: “I’m very disappointed that TikTok isn’t doing more to stop this in the first place.
“Technology is so advanced that where there’s a will, there’s a way.
“I’d expect to see a greater sense of urgency on this matter, and it’s possible that if they fail to stamp out these posts, the government will feel the need to legislate further.”
TikTok recently signed up to a government partnership to clamp down on the evil trade — but it is seemingly failing to flush out every post.
A migrant woman was helped up a beach yesterday after surviving a small boat Channel crossing.
Around 50 people were picked up by the RNLI off Dungeness, Kent.