The Black Out Challenge in TikTok is killing an underage Italian girl and the authorities are asking the app to delete user accounts

Italy's data protection watchdog ordered social network TikTok on Friday to step up age restrictions on its application after the death of a minor, apparently for participating in one of the app's widespread challenges.

The girl put a belt around her neck and pressed to participate in the "Black Out Challenge", a severe suffocation test in which she tries to withstand for as long as possible without breathing what led to the death of the girl, and the Italian authorities opened a file about it. About "incitement to suicide" for the platform.

The family of the 10-year-old found her, after which she was urgently rushed to the hospital, where doctors could not do anything for her and declared her brain dead.

According to "La Repubblica", the social network TikTok issued a statement confirming that it was a "tragic event" and offered their condolences to the family.

They emphasized that "the safety of the TikTok community is our top priority, and we are at the disposal of the relevant authorities to cooperate in their investigations."

In this regard, the Italian data protection authority asked TikTok to remove accounts that cannot immediately verify the user's age.

For his part, the mayor of Palermo, the city in which the minor girl lives, was "in a state of shock" and confirmed that a necessary discussion about young people's use of phones and social networks through a post on the social networking site Facebook.

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The Tiktokers showed who they really are(20 Pics)

 here is such a thing as cat fishing on the net, which comes from the slang catfish - a fake person (and not at all "catfish"). Cat fishermen are people who, through various tricks, turn into those who are not. Thanks to TikTok's upcoming “challenge”, such users have appeared, showing themselves to the world as real.

After looking at the selection of Bored Panda, it becomes obvious that the appearance of the model is a work behind which some pretty ordinary people are hiding.

Catfish is a fake personality that is usually created for virtual communication

It is not necessarily stolen - the user can create their own

The creator of a false identity does not always aim to cheat on someone (at least consciously)

Therefore, the concept of "catfish" is unclear.

There are clear and obvious examples

In other cases, it is an attempt to look better.

Sometimes the false personality begins to dominate the real one.

And someone creates it for fun

The public treats this phenomenon differently.

The point is, being cheated is always fun.

If the "catfisher" shows himself "as in real life", the questions do not arise: everyone understands that it is a game

Even TV shows with investigation and the search for the truth come out under this shop.

Now, in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, this is especially true

People are sitting at home, so the current is gaining momentum. Or has already won

Although this phenomenon is old, and it existed even before the advent of the Internet

It's just that it was more difficult to implement this approach in the past

For example, in the movie "1 + 1", one of the main characters tried to show himself to others

But the slang word catfish mainly refers to the internet and the creation of a fake personality on the internet.

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The new rival app for Tik Tok that hired Neymar exclusively by removing it from TikTok

  Without making much noise, a short music video app called Triller achieved 250 million downloads in September. A platform that has partnered with global record companies like Sony, Universal, or Warner, and recently removed soccer player Neymar Jr from TikTok. Yes, how did that happen?

As part of its growth strategy, the platform signed a cooperation agreement with the soccer star to make him an ambassador for the app, and the player thus split from Tik Tok as the cost of this agreement.

In fact, Neymar has posted a video on his various social networks, where he is very active, encouraging his followers to follow him in the new app, the American producer and DJ also serving as an ambassador for Triller.  

The officials of this new platform define Triller, which was created just a few months ago, as an app that allows you to create and share music videos, as well as a place to discover new musical talent. Connecting to music right now is one of its pillars.

Operating the app available for both Android and iOS will not be strange to most people. Where to use it we choose a song, choose a specific part we want to use, different clips are recorded, and with one click we already have our video.

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