Police and Educators boost security as online threats on TikTok mount

Police and Educators boost security as online threats on TikTok mount

FILE - The TikTok app logo appears in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2020. TikTok was built on wacky dance trends (remember the Floss?), but the short-video platform has grown into much, much more as millions signed on during the pandemic. So where does that leave all that dancing? Slightly and thankfully muted for the dance-craze weary. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

UNDATED (AP) — Educators around the country are stepping up security in response to a series of TikTok posts warning of various acts of violence at schools. Despite numerous online warnings of possible shootings and bombings, officials are assuring parents that the viral posts aren’t seen as credible. Even so, school officials are on edge, especially since the posts come in the wake of the deadly school shooting in Michigan last month. That attack was followed by a series of copycat threats to schools elsewhere.

Photo: FILE – The TikTok app logo appears in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)