Italian police announced the opening of an investigation on Tuesday Chinese social network TikTokaccused of allow the disclosure of “dangerous content that encourages suicide, self-harm and the development of eating disorders”.

The investigation, conducted by the Competition Authority, involves Irish company TikTok Technology Limited, which is responsible for relations with European consumers, as well as its English and Italian subsidiaries, it said in a press release.

TikTok’s Italian headquarters was the subject of an inspection by the financial police on Tuesdaycase manager.

The opening of the investigation was decided by the presence on the platform of “numerous videos of young people engaging in self-harming behavior”like the recent challenge to mark his face with the call “french scar”, which has gone viral.

That challenge, described in many tutorials on TikTok, involves squeezing your cheekbones together so hard and for so long that you should leave a bruise, but may even leave permanent marks, a dangerous practice doctors say.

The antitrust entity criticizes TikTok for not having adequate systems to monitor content“especially in the presence of particularly vulnerable users such as minors”.

TikTok has “not applied its own rules, which consider the removal of dangerous content related to challenges, suicides, self-harm and eating disorders,” the authority emphasized in a press release.

TikTok, owned by the Chinese giant ByteDance, is also currently under attack from many countries for security reasons.