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Episode: How TikTok is contributing to spiralling mental health
Description: WARNING: This episode features content dealing with self-harm, suicide, and related mental health topics. Scroll through TikTok and you’re likely to find a series of harmless, sometimes hilarious, video clips of young people doing weird things.  But dig a little deeper, and you’re likely to find a dark underbelly of posts, sharing the experiences of people suffering from mental illness. So what is TikTok doing about it? Do parents actually know what their kids are looking at? And what should our regulators do to keep New Zealand’s teenagers safe from harm?  <...