西班牙青年和儿童部已要求检察机关调查TikTok上的儿童性虐待材料，并提出可能暂停该平台在西班牙的服务，西班牙通讯社EFE及其他媒体周一报道。
Spain’s Ministry of Youth and Children has asked prosecutors to investigate child sexual abuse material on TikTok and raised the possibility of suspending the platform’s services in the country, Spanish news agency EFE and other news outlets reported Monday.
在致总检察长办公室的一封信中，该部在西班牙非营利组织Maldita.es的一项调查发现该热门平台上存在大量儿童性虐待材料后，呼吁采取措施保护儿童。
In a letter to the attorney general’s office, the ministry called for measures to protect children following an investigation by Spanish nonprofit Maldita.es that uncovered widespread child sexual abuse material on the popular platform.
EFE援引该部消息人士的话报道，该部建议“如认为适当”暂停TikTok在西班牙的服务。
The ministry suggested suspending TikTok’s services in Spain “if deemed appropriate,” EFE reported, citing ministry sources.
Maldita.es周一发布的一份报告称，该组织在为期35天的调查中记录了1182条包含明确儿童性虐待材料的公开帖子。该组织表示，这些帖子获得了4800万次观看，TikTok的搜索和推荐工具帮助研究人员找到了这些材料。
In a report published Monday, Maldita.es said it documented 1,182 public posts containing explicit child sexual abuse material during a 35-day investigation. The posts drew 48 million views, and TikTok’s search and recommendation tools helped researchers find the material, the organization said.
Maldita.es表示，一些卖家使用表情符号或像素模糊了明确图片的部分，同时宣传出售完整视频。其他账户公开展示明确图片，有时还将其用作个人资料图片。研究人员还发现，一些非明确的儿童照片被用来引导用户前往购买、出售或交换儿童性虐待材料的频道。
Some sellers used emojis or pixels to obscure parts of explicit images while advertising the full videos for sale, Maldita.es said. Other accounts displayed explicit images openly, sometimes as profile pictures. Researchers also found non-explicit photos of children used to direct users to channels where child sexual abuse material was bought, sold or exchanged.
Maldita.es写道：“很明显，我们曾将其与互联网最黑暗角落联系在一起的内容，如今已触目皆是。”
“What is clear is that content we once associated with the darkest corners of the internet is now in plain sight,” Maldita.es wrote.
研究人员通过TikTok自身的举报系统，向该公司举报了50个视频样本。据Maldita.es称，该公司删除了其中5个视频，并在西班牙屏蔽了另外13个。
Researchers reported a sample of 50 videos to TikTok through its own reporting system. The company removed five and blocked another 13 in Spain, according to Maldita.es.
该组织补充称，研究人员确定的231个发布明确材料的账户中，有136个在调查最后一天10月15日仍处于活跃状态。观看次数最多的视频在被TikTok在西班牙屏蔽之前，已获得超过400万次观看。当Maldita.es公布其调查结果时，发布该视频的账户仍处于活跃状态。
Of the 231 accounts researchers identified as having posted explicit material, 136 remained active on Oct. 15, the final day of the investigation, it added. The most-viewed video had drawn more than 4 million views before TikTok blocked it in Spain. The account that posted it was still active when Maldita.es published its findings.
研究人员表示，他们还识别出7700多个西班牙语账号，这些账号的用户吹嘘拥有儿童性虐待材料、请求获取此类材料或主动提出分享。
Researchers said they also identified more than 7,700 Spanish-language accounts whose users boasted about having child sexual abuse material, requested it or offered to share it.
调查范围延伸至17个国家未成年人进行的91场直播。研究人员称，观众在儿童从家中或学校进行直播时，向他们提供金钱以满足要求，其中一些要求涉及性内容。
The investigation extended to 91 livestreams by minors in 17 countries. Researchers said viewers offered children money to fulfill requests, some of them sexual, while the children were broadcasting from home or school.
Maldita.es表示，TikTok的虚拟礼物功能让观众能在直播期间向儿童付款，而平台本身也从这些交易中获利。
Maldita.es said TikTok’s virtual gifts allowed viewers to pay children during the broadcasts and that the platform itself profited from those transactions.
据西班牙通讯社（EFE）报道，青年与儿童部长西拉·雷戈要求与TikTok在西班牙的代表紧急会面，解释公司采取了哪些保障措施，以及将立即采取什么行动来保护儿童。
Youth and Children Minister Sira Rego requested an urgent meeting with TikTok’s representatives in Spain to explain what safeguards the company had put in place and what it would do immediately to protect children, according to EFE.
部门消息人士告诉EFE，这些发现“极其严重”，并呼吁西班牙和欧洲当局作出协调回应。该部门指出，TikTok在检测和审核内容方面存在缺陷，并对其推荐系统在传播相关材料中所起的作用表示担忧。
Ministry sources told EFE the findings were “of extreme gravity” and called for a coordinated response from Spanish and European authorities. The ministry cited shortcomings in how TikTok detects and moderates content, as well as concerns about the role its recommendation system played in spreading the material.
该非营利组织已将证据提交给西班牙网络犯罪检察官，并表示将在未来几天发布更多调查结果。
The nonprofit submitted its evidence to Spanish cybercrime prosecutors and said it would publish further findings in the coming days.
Maldita.es称，TikTok在被联系时要求提供更多信息，但在调查报告发布时，尚未就其儿童保护措施或调查发现作出回应。
TikTok asked for more information when contacted but had not answered questions about its child protection measures or the findings by the time the investigation was published, Maldita.es said.