Despite TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook prohibiting content that promotes crime, videos glamorising dangerous driving appear to be falling through the cracks.
The i Paper asked the social media companies whether they will remove joyriding content; if they planned to update any algorithms to stop promoting this content; and whether they flag these videos and accounts to the police.
TikTok and Meta – which owns Facebook and Instagram – did not provide an on-the-record comment, while Snapchat did not respond before the deadline for publication.
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Concern over dangerous driving content online has intensified after two high-speed crashes on the A66 in Middlesbrough and in Ireland – both involving cars driving the wrong way – led to the deaths of 12 people.
