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If you’re on TikTok, you’ll know that one of the things that its users love to do the most is to compete and get involved in viral challenges. Not that long ago, a skull-breaker challenge came out, causing groups of friends to trip each other over so that they fell to the ground. The latest challenge doesn’t appear to have moved on very far from this – it involves teens swerving all over the road in time with the beat.

Marc Faddoul is an artificial intelligence researcher, who just recently joined TikTok. When he did, he found the recommendations section a bit odd. He said that the profiles that were suggested he follow seemed to look very similar to the profile picture of the first account.

TikTok will not be warning users about a video or even removing it, despite pressure to. The video in question is of the waterbombing plane crash that killed three U.S. firefighters. TikTok claims that the video does not violate its community guidelines.

If you’re on TikTok and you know what’s what, then you’ll most likely either have heard of Charli D’Amelio or are already following her. This 15-year-old dancer has an impressive 28 million TikTok followers, and 7 million over on Instagram. Just to try and understand how popular she is, think of stars like Britney Spears or Miley Cryus when she was Hannah Montana.

TikTok knows better than anyone how addictive their app can be, which is why the popular social media sharing app is giving parents a lot more control over how long their children spend on it.