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Fraudsters Fake Down Syndrome – Tiktok Gives the Green Light

Summary by Dagens Nyheter.
They are young people with Down syndrome, injured war veterans and bullied girls. They want you to buy their handmade clothes and bags, which they show in tearful clips on Tiktok. But everything is AI-generated. The people don't exist. The products are mass-produced, probably from China. A clear violation of Tiktok's rules - but now DN can reveal that hundreds of clips are given the green light despite the platform reviewing them.

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Fraudsters Fake Down Syndrome – Tiktok Gives the Green Light

They are young people with Down syndrome, injured war veterans and bullied girls. They want you to buy their handmade clothes and bags, which they show in tearful clips on Tiktok. But everything is AI-generated. The people don't exist. The products are mass-produced, probably from China. A clear violation of Tiktok's rules - but now DN can reveal that hundreds of clips are given the green light despite the platform reviewing them.

·Stockholm, Sweden
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Dagens Nyheter. broke the news in Stockholm, Sweden on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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