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play-icon Created with Sketch. Chinese TikTokers living in the UK tell us how they've moved New Year celebrations online this year and how they're tackling the rise in racism their community has received during the pandemic. By Digital Presenter and Producer Mojo Abidi This Lunar New Year, Asian content creators are marking the festival on TikTok - honouring traditions, having fun and fighting racism. The pandemic means most of the UK’s Chinese and Asian population can’t go home and see their family, so the celebrations have moved to social media. From dance challenges, to sing-alongs, ...

Friday January 29, 2021, 1:49 PM These videos promoting plastic surgery are being shown to children as young as 14 on TikTok. Credit: TikTok/@barrettplasticsurgery/@abbie.wol By Digital Presenter and Producer Mojo Abidi Plastic surgeons are using TikTok to promote their procedures to young teenagers, despite the app banning cosmetic surgery adverts.  Videos showing plastic surgery are appearing on the For You page of children as young as 14, which mental health experts say is "deeply problematic".  Videos of cosmetic surgery transformations have become a viral trend on the app.  The hashta...

A man has two guesses left before bitcoin worth millions of pounds is lost forever. Credit: Unsplash By Digital Presenter and Producer Mojo Abidi We’re all guilty of forgetting our password from time to time but for one man, the stakes are higher than most. Programmer Stefan Thomas's lost password will let him unlock a hard drive containing £175m ($240m) worth of bitcoin. But after eight wrong guesses, he has only two attempts left before the money is lost forever. His predicament has gone viral. Speaking to The New York Times, Thomas revealed that he was gifted 7,002 bitcoins in 2011, ...

The judge said the tests were "humiliating" and with "no scientific requirement". Credit: AP By Digital Presenter and Producer Mojo Abidi Women's rights activists have welcomed a Pakistani court's decision to ban so-called 'virginity tests' on rape victims - but have questioned if the move is enough. The outlaw, which will apply in the Punjab province, means women will no longer have to undergo physical checks for an intact hymen and the invasive 'two-finger test' during rape examinations. In the historic ruling, Lahore High Court judge Justice Ayesha Malik said the tests were “humiliati...

These clothes aren't real - they are virtual. Credit: DressX By Digital Presenter and Producer Mojo Abidi We're all used to online clothes shopping - but what about buying new clothes that you never actually receive? A new trend is seeing people buy virtual clothes that are superimposed onto photos of themselves to share on social media. Like a normal online store, customers select the garment they want and click buy. But they also provide a photo of themselves and within 48 hours, the image is sent back - with their newly purchased clothes digitally altered on, ready to share with their fo...