TikTok to ban videos that encourage sunburn and tanning after alarm from medical experts

Medical experts had criticised video-sharing app for its popular #sunburnchallenge hashtag

Social media giant TikTok has announced it will actively ban videos that encourage tanning and add educational content to its platform after alarm from Australian medical experts over the platform's sharing of pro-tanning material.

In September, Melanoma Institute Australia co-medical directors Prof Georgina Long and Prof Richard Scolyer, speaking at the National Press Club, took issue with the video-sharing app for its popular #sunburnchallenge hashtag.