'Dark web' responsible for TikTok suicide video, says company

Upload to social video site was part of coordinated attack' a week after live Facebook broadcast, MPs hear

A graphic suicide video that went viral on TikTok in early September was the result of a coordinated raid from the dark web", the company has told MPs.

Giving evidence to the Commons committee for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), Theo Bertram, TikTok's European director of public policy, said the video, which was originally broadcast live on Facebook, was used in a coordinated attack" on the social video app a week after it was originally recorded.