Moments after Rachael posted the 58-second clip, her phone started to buzz. What she saw next horrified her [Video]

The 58-second TikTok video was supposed to be a warning for young Australians to take sun safety seriously.

Instead, Melbourne mum Rachel was flooded with comments claiming sunscreen caused her skin cancer.

The pink spot on Rachel’s head turned out to be skin cancer. (Supplied/Rachael)

It’s one of many false claims about sunscreen doing the rounds on social media this summer and Australians are being warned not to fall for it.

“We have seen a huge spike in misinformation about the causes of skin cancer, in particular the role of sunscreen, which is very disturbing,” Liz King, Manager of Skin Cancer Prevention at Cancer Council NSW, told 9news.com.au.

Young people are particularly at risk of encountering this kind of misinformation because almost half of Aussies aged 18–24 cited social media as their main news source in a recent ACMA report.

It has experts worried that young Aussies could be swayed to skip …

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