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Coronavirus: TikTok donates £5m to Royal College of Nursing fundBy Sophia Smith GalerBBC News 17 April 2020 Image copyrightTikTokImage captionTikTok has been promoting videos made by nursing staff as well as politicians praising their effortsVideo-sharing app TikTok is giving £5m to a British nursing fund, to help it during the coronavirus outbreak.The Royal College of Nursing will use the money to provide financial support to frontline nurses facing hardship.It is the biggest donation made by a social media company to date to a British organisation involved in tackling the pandemic.The gift is part of a wider $250m (£198m) worldwide fund the Chinese firm has set up to provide relief.Not all that sum is being given away in the form of cash. A total of $125m is being offered in the form of ad credits, which are being divided up between small-to-medium sized businesses, non-governmental organisations, local authorities and health bodies. TikTok and other social media firms are currently fa…