Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok said on Tuesday that it’s reviewing content that appears to advertise smuggling people into the UK.
It comes after the content was flagged by British media outlet GB News.
The videos, some of which were sent to the broadcaster by an unnamed audience member, appear to target Albanian-speaking migrants who want to go to the UK.
One of the videos shows a sequence of footage starting from a parked Wizz Air flight with the captain saying “Rinas”—an Albanian village—to streets in Brussels and Paris, then to the French coastal city of Dunkirk, before showing a map of the English Channel, complete with the word “water,” a laughing emoji, and British and Albanian flags….