Guy Adams Investigates Deadly Social Media Trend Linked to Five Teen Deaths
- Five teenagers died last Sunday when a BMW drove on the wrong side of the M9 motorway south of Dublin, prompting authorities to investigate links to an online reckless driving trend.
- Police link the crash to the Lucky Dip, a group where teenagers steal vehicles for online likes. Irish police chief Justin Kelly warned, "What makes this reckless behaviour even more appalling is that in some cases it is being done for social media likes."
- Authorities are demanding a "full account" from TikTok regarding how it hosts content glorifying criminal activity. The company declined an invitation to appear at a public hearing before an Irish parliamentary committee.
- Irish Prime Minister Miche declared there would be "no tolerance" for the reckless behaviour, while Media committee chair Alan Kelly pressed the platform to explain its content removal policies.
- This fatal crash exposes ongoing tensions between governments and social media platforms over safety, with similar concerns existing in Australia where officials have pressured platforms to remove dangerous driving videos.
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A trend in which young people share videos of dangerous driving maneuvers in the social media is booming in Ireland and the UK. Again and again there are persecutions and fatal accidents.
Young people can be easily influenced on the net. A new trend puts them in great danger, but for the range and the likes some take the risk. A double-digit number of people die as a result so far.
In the UK and Ireland, over the last few weeks, twelve people have been killed in road accidents, several of them related to young ghost drivers filming dangerous spraying for social media.
A new viral trend on TikTok, pushing young people to film themselves in countersense and high speed, has resulted in the death of 12 people in a week. The social network is taken to part Filming in countersense, it is the new popular mode on TikTok. Its name on the app: "Wrong Way Driving Challenge". The goal is to film itself by rolling in the opposite direction and at high speed on the road. A challenge that caused the death of 12 people in En…
The car was driving the wrong way on the highway at high speed. Seven people died when it collided with the police. In the aftermath, twelve people have been arrested and the crash has become a government issue.
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