Growing number of Irish TikTok videos show migrants being harassed and attacked

TikTok had not been widely used by those who organise protests, but this has changed in recent weeks. Picture: Kiichiro Sato/AP

A growing number of new accounts on the social media app TikTok are spreading anti-migrant misinformation among Irish users, with some videos viewed over 1m times.

In one case, a man whose face was shown on the app along with untrue allegations that he had sexually assaulted people at a Dublin children's hospital was later brutally attacked. The attack was also filmed and shared on TikTok.