TikTok’s Birth Control Problem: 90% Of Top Videos Aren’t From Medical Experts

TikTok’s Birth Control Problem: 90% Of Top Videos Aren’t From Medical Experts

When millions of young people turn to TikTok for information about birth control, they’re overwhelmingly getting it from influencers, self-proclaimed “hormone health coaches,” and everyday users instead of doctors or nurses. The post TikTok’s Birth Control Problem: 90% Of Top Videos Aren’t From Medical Experts appeared first on Study Finds.

TikTok birth control advice putting young people at risk, study shows

Australian researchers have found more than half of TikTok’s birth control advice comes from unqualified influencers rejecting medical contraception. Words by James Dowling for The Australian   TikTok influencers are spreading misleading birth control advice on social media and raising the risk of unplanned youth pregnancies, new Australian research warns. A team from La Trobe University’s school of psychology and public health on Tuesday releas…