TikTok is the fastest growing social media app in the world. But TikTok has come under scrutiny for the practice of gift-Baiting. That’s when TikTokkers use their live broadcasts to coerce young fans into sending them hundreds of dollars in digital gifts. The BBC’s Joe Tidy reports.
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