TikTok is (still) obsessed with exposing cheating. But are internet sleuths going too far? [Video]

On June 24, TikTok user @carolinerened shared a video of a man on a United Airlines flight. Not much can be ascertained from the video itself, but the user’s caption has caused an internet storm. This lengthy explanation included flight details, names, and alleged this man was cheating on his wife.

“I wouldn’t have known he was married if he hadn’t been wearing his wedding ring,” the user writes. “Do your thing TikTok,” she continued, in a now-deleted video which had over a million likes.

TikTok did, in fact, do its thing, with thousands of views and comments leading to the man and his wife being doxxed, and the man since deleting his social media profiles.

This is the latest incident of cheaters being exposed on TikTok, and with the help of strangers online. The cheaters are inevitably shamed, their partners are informed, and the whole world can watch the breakdown of a relationship on …