TikTok is failing to address serious risks of harm to young users’ mental and physical health almost 18 months after Amnesty International highlighted these risks in a groundbreaking report. Ahead of the 2025 Mental Health Awareness Week, Amnesty International asked TikTok what changes the company had implemented since then. TikTok’s response listed familiar ‘well-being’ measures, most of them already in place when the research was conducted and failed to acknowledge the app’s “rabbit hole” problem. It also failed to produce evidence of any new targeted measures to address it.
