A Cork-based social media personality\u2019s TikTok account has been banned, just days after his profile was also removed from Instagram.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian-born Vladyslav Morhulets, 21, posted videos of interactions filmed using smart glasses, often without the subjects\u2019 knowledge, under the username Rendy_Vlad.<\/p>\n
His content included footage of a young woman experiencing a medical emergency in Cork city centre, interactions with retail staff and \u201cpranks\u201d in which he pretends to give money to vulnerable people before taking it back.<\/p>\n
Meta confirmed earlier this week that it had removed his Instagram account, where he had nearly 12,000 followers, citing repeated violations of its bullying and harassment policies.<\/p>\n
The former MTU student had a much larger following on TikTok, with 1.1 million followers and a combined 13.6 million likes on his videos.<\/p>\n
According to TikTok, content that violated its guidelines had already been removed from the account. However, following further investigation, the company has now banned it entirely.<\/p>\n
The company said it does not allow content that harasses or bullies others.<\/p>\n
It added that its Community Guidelines on regulated goods and services also prohibit content involving the trading, marketing or provision of access to regulated, prohibited or high-risk goods and services, including gambling and gambling-like activities.<\/p>\n
Irish users cannot monetise content directly through likes and views on social media platforms, leaving brand deals as a main source of income for creators. Videos by Mr Morhulets have been linked to the promotion of Rainbet, an unregulated crypto gambling platform.<\/p>\n
A Meta spokesperson said earlier this week: \u201cWe don’t tolerate harassing content, however it was captured, and have removed the account @rendy_vlad for repeatedly violating our bullying and harassment policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meta, which makes one of the most popular brands of smart glasses, said: \u201cThe vast majority of people use our AI glasses because they\u2019re helpful in everyday moments like listening to music, getting live translation while travelling, or making a call hands-free.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe glasses are ‘designed to be noticed’,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery pair with a camera has a bright light on the front that flashes when you take a photo or video you can share with others.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
They added: \u201cIf the glasses detect that the capture LED light was covered, physically tampered with, or destroyed, they’ll automatically disable the camera.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cork-based social media personality\u2019s TikTok account has been banned, just days after his profile was also removed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,79,61,60,58],"class_list":["post-669197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}