Tik Tok and the war against online drug trading
The Briefing16 Juni 2022

Tik Tok and the war against online drug trading

Tik Tok has been the fastest growing social media app ever. In just five years it has had over 2 billion downloads and now reports 1.6b regular users - about half of Facebook, already.

Many of its users are young and so there’s obviously concern that it's being used to sell and promote drugs.

Dr. James Martin is a senior lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University who specialises in the online drug trade. How concerned should we be about TikTok and where does it fit into the much bigger and more established world of online drug sales, namely the dark web and the encrypted messaging apps.

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