Schmidt’s experience highlights a pattern of deceptive marketing on TikTok that appears to be fueling a gray market for GLP-1 medications — including “research grade” drugs that are often in powder form. Content about such weight loss drugs on TikTok primarily targets women through sexualized images and videos, according to a new report from UltraViolet, the gender equality organization.
UltraViolet Action, a national women’s rights and survivor justice group, denounces the Senate’s vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General, and renews calls to the House Oversight Committee to investigate and hold accountable the Epstein network and its enablers.
Following multiple credible allegations of intimate partner and child abuse against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), including from his ex-wife, UltraViolet Action, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization, and Reckoning Action, a new organization built to confront misogyny and gender bias in American public life, released the following joint statement calling on Miller to resign from Congress.
Prominent women’s and survivors’ group denounces today’s vote to advance the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and reaffirms commitment to Epstein accountability and holding abusers accountable
A recent, unsettling analysis by UltraViolet, a gender justice nonprofit, has pulled back the curtain on this shadowy world. Their report paints a stark picture: hundreds of accounts actively promoting and selling unregulated alternatives to legitimate GLP-1 medications. These aren’t just a few rogue actors; this is a significant, organized effort to capitalize on people’s desperation for weight loss.
A new report accuses TikTok of failing to appropriately moderate a growing "gray market" for GLP-1 weight loss drugs as they continue to surge in popularity. The content analysis, conducted by gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet, pinpointed hundreds of TikTok accounts promoting unregulated GLP-1 drugs, including GLP-1 alternatives advertised as "research-grade." Accounts often directed users off the platform to purchase drugs on WhatsApp, Discord, and Telegram.
Last year, UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew as “Unwanted in Miami.”
UltraViolet's new report exposing how TikTok has allowed a thriving gray market for unregulated GLP-1 drugs to flourish on its platform, putting women at risk of financial, physical, and mental harm. The report details how illicit sellers exploit women through misleading health claims and unsafe drug promotions that violate TikTok's own policies, and calls on the platform to take immediate action to protect users.
Last year, UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew (Tate) as “Unwanted in Miami.” They branded him a “sexual predator imported to the U.S. by President Donald Trump.”
UltraViolet issued a statement following the arrest of Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami, calling for the Justice Department to process the U.K. extradition request without delay and reaffirming support for all survivors of sexual violence.
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued 38 new charges against the pair over the weekend. The brothers were arrested on Saturday (July 18) on an extradition request from British authorities.
A news release from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Andrew had been charged with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography.
UltraViolet Action launched a new petition marking 200 days since the Justice Department missed the deadline to release the Epstein files, calling for transparency and accountability under the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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