TikTok plans to ban the use beauty filters by under 18s.They said it is to combat the normalisation of altered images which distort people’s views of what is real and promotes the “impossible beauty standard”. Dr Antonis Kousoulis from the Mental Health Foundation said: “We must act now to understand how standalone image-editing apps, and popular in-app filters on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, influence children and young people’s body image and their mental health.”