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She bought ‘GLP-1’ patches on TikTok. She got scammed instead.

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She bought ‘GLP-1’ patches on TikTok. She got scammed instead.

Schmidt’s experience highlights a pattern of deceptive marketing on TikTok that appears to be fueling a gray market for GLP-1 medications — including “research grade” drugs that are often in powder form. Content about such weight loss drugs on TikTok primarily targets women through sexualized images and videos, according to a new report from UltraViolet, the gender equality organization.

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Keeping Score: Trump Disapproval Hits a New Low; Continued ICE Violence; AOC on Freezing Her Eggs: ‘Don’t Be Weird About This’

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Keeping Score: Trump Disapproval Hits a New Low; Continued ICE Violence; AOC on Freezing Her Eggs: ‘Don’t Be Weird About This’

“We already knew that Todd Blanche and Donald Trump never cared about the 1,000 survivors who were exploited and abused through Jeffrey Epstein’s network. What is a surprise, and a damning one, too, is the fact that a majority of Senate Republicans are just as willing to protect predators and pedophiles for political gain.” —Nicole Regalado, vice president of campaigns at UltraViolet Action

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Prominent Feminist Group Tells Republicans Who Confirmed AG Todd Blanche: Women Are Watching and We Will Remember.

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Prominent Feminist Group Tells Republicans Who Confirmed AG Todd Blanche: Women Are Watching and We Will Remember.

UltraViolet Action, a national women’s rights and survivor justice group, denounces the Senate’s vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General, and renews calls to the House Oversight Committee to investigate and hold accountable the Epstein network and its enablers.

Survivor Justice Organizations Call on Representative Max Miller to Resign. Now.

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Survivor Justice Organizations Call on Representative Max Miller to Resign. Now.

Following multiple credible allegations of intimate partner and child abuse against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), including from his ex-wife, UltraViolet Action, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization, and Reckoning Action, a new organization built to confront misogyny and gender bias in American public life, released the following joint statement calling on Miller to resign from Congress. 

The Scandalous Truth About TikTok’s Gray Market GLP-1 Drugs

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The Scandalous Truth About TikTok’s Gray Market GLP-1 Drugs

A recent, unsettling analysis by UltraViolet, a gender justice nonprofit, has pulled back the curtain on this shadowy world. Their report paints a stark picture: hundreds of accounts actively promoting and selling unregulated alternatives to legitimate GLP-1 medications. These aren’t just a few rogue actors; this is a significant, organized effort to capitalize on people’s desperation for weight loss.

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A ‘gray market’ of GLP-1 drugs is growing on TikTok, new analysis alleges

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A ‘gray market’ of GLP-1 drugs is growing on TikTok, new analysis alleges

A new report accuses TikTok of failing to appropriately moderate a growing "gray market" for GLP-1 weight loss drugs as they continue to surge in popularity. The content analysis, conducted by gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet, pinpointed hundreds of TikTok accounts promoting unregulated GLP-1 drugs, including GLP-1 alternatives advertised as "research-grade." Accounts often directed users off the platform to purchase drugs on WhatsApp, Discord, and Telegram.

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New Report from Women’s Group Reveals Dangerous GLP-1 Gray Market on TikTok

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New Report from Women’s Group Reveals Dangerous GLP-1 Gray Market on TikTok

UltraViolet's new report exposing how TikTok has allowed a thriving gray market for unregulated GLP-1 drugs to flourish on its platform, putting women at risk of financial, physical, and mental harm. The report details how illicit sellers exploit women through misleading health claims and unsafe drug promotions that violate TikTok's own policies, and calls on the platform to take immediate action to protect users.

Choked to unconsciousness: New accusations against Tate brothers emerge in Miami court.

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Choked to unconsciousness: New accusations against Tate brothers emerge in Miami court.

Last year, UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization, launched a campaign online and with posters hung through Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood marking Andrew (Tate) as “Unwanted in Miami.” They branded him a “sexual predator imported to the U.S. by President Donald Trump.”

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