MGA Associate Professor Warns of TikTok Filters and Toxic Beauty Myths to Yahoo News UK

Kim Johnson, associate professor of nursing at MGA, spoke to Yahoo News UK about TikTok's new "Bold Glamour" filter and how artificial effects reinforce toxic beauty myths.

"Quietly released to the app's more than a billion users, Bold Glamour convincingly blends a user's real face with an AI-generated ideal of a supermodel, drawing both laughs and alarm.

'It's the new onslaught of the 'beauty myth',' said Kim Johnson, associate professor of nursing at Middle Georgia State University in the United States."

Read the article here.

Woman holding her phone, recording herself on TikTok.