{"id":18391,"date":"2025-04-06T07:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:37:37","slug":"profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Profiting from misery\u2019: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts<\/p>\n<p>Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. \u201cPlease support me. We are very poor,\u201d says a boy, staring down the lens.<\/p>\n<p>They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide \u2013 via TikTok Live.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/06\/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c0a1b5b68b3591cabd25c3bd700eb11c5c8f778e\/593_19_2395_1438\/master\/2395.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ad8f2ea170abef12ed1363d69ff229e7\" title=\"\u2018Profiting from misery\u2019: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams\" \/>Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts<br \/>\nThree young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. \u201cPlease support me. We are very poor,\u201d says a boy, staring down the lens.<br \/>\nThey appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide \u2013 via TikTok Live. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual gifts Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. \u201cPlease support me. We are very poor,\u201d says a boy, staring down the lens. They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/profiting-from-misery-how-tiktok-makes-money-from-child-begging-livestreams\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Profiting from misery\u2019: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}