Watchdog contacting TikTok over 'joyriding content' after five teens die speeding wrong way on motorway

The Irish media regulator is to contact social media giant TikTok over its efforts to tackle videos of reckless and illegal driving. The platform is under scrutiny after five teenage boys were killed when the BMW they were travelling in sped the wrong way up a motorway, smashing into a family driving to Dublin Airport for a holiday. The family members - three sisters and a seven-year-old-boy - were all seriously injured and continue to receive hospital treatment.The teenagers killed in the crash in County Kildare in the early hours of Sunday morning have been named locally, and by friends and relatives posting on social media, as 17-year-old Kamil Pustkowski, Jack Kennedy, also 17, Jeremy O'Brien, 18, Joe "Joey" Carthy, 15, and Alex McCarthy, 17.Accounts belonging to some of the dead boys appeared to show videos of cars being stolen and driven illegally, and being pursued by police vehicles.TikTok told Sky News that it was "closely monitoring" content relating to the incident and removing videos and accounts that break its rules. Datawrapper This content is provided by Datawrapper, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission ...