TikTok: Protect women. Stop the GLP-1 gray market.

We all know that GLP-1 drugs are everywhere now. For some, these drugs can truly be lifesaving. At the same time, we can’t ignore that some of the craze is driven by harmful pressures to meet impossible beauty standards (let’s be real they want us starving!!). These demands plus shortages and access barriers create a thriving underground GLP-1 market, and a recent report from @weareultraviolet found that TikTok is enabling it big time. TikTok content where vendors promote and sell unregulated weight loss drugs is not only super widespread, but also made easy to find by TikTok recommendations, hashtags, and discover pages. The entire ecosystem is very dangerous, especially for women who are the likeliest to be preyed upon and scammed by these unregulated drugs. Join us in calling on TikTok to put a stop to this illicit market.

A new report from UltraViolet found that TikTok is not only platforming unregulated GLP-1 vendors, but making that content easy for users (and esp women who are the ones most targeted by these predatory vendors) to find. Please join us in calling on TikTok to take urgent action.

A new report from @ultraviolet.bsky.social found that TikTok is enabling a market of unregulated GLP-1s. Why? Cost barriers for regulated drugs and pressure to meet impossible beauty standards. The whole thing is scary and unacceptable.

A new report from @weareultraviolet found that TikTok is enabling a market of unregulated GLP-1s. Why? Cost barriers for regulated drugs and pressure to meet impossible beauty standards. The whole thing is scary and unacceptable.

We all know that GLP-1 drugs are everywhere now. For some, these drugs can truly be lifesaving. At the same time, we can’t ignore that some of the craze is driven by harmful pressures to meet impossible beauty standards (let’s be real they want us starving!!). These demands plus shortages and access barriers create a thriving underground GLP-1 market, and a recent report from @weareultraviolet found that TikTok is enabling it big time. TikTok content where vendors promote and sell unregulated weight loss drugs is not only super widespread, but also made easy to find by TikTok recommendations, hashtags, and discover pages. The entire ecosystem is very dangerous, especially for women who are the likeliest to be preyed upon and scammed by these unregulated drugs. Join us in calling on TikTok to put a stop to this illicit market.

A new report from @ultraviolet.bsky.social found that TikTok is not only platforming unregulated GLP-1 vendors, but making that content easy for users to find. This is unacceptable.

According to a new report from @weareultraviolet, TikTok is enabling a whole market of underground, unregulated GLP-1s that people are having to mix and dose themselves. Why? A mix of cost barriers for regulated drugs and crazy pressures to meet impossible beauty standards. The whole thing is scary and unacceptable. Join us in calling on TikTok to do take urgent action.