Court records show TikTok staff warned executives about child safety
NPR reports that court records show TikTok employees repeatedly warned executives about child safety risks and that the executives did not act.
TikTok employees repeatedly warned the company's executives about risks the platform posed to children, and the executives failed to act, according to court records reported by NPR. NPR describes the records as a trove that had not been reported before.
The Verge, citing NPR's reporting, says employees were frustrated that executives did not respond properly to their concerns. Those concerns included minors getting around age restrictions on content. They also included minors appearing in "transactional sexual content," according to The Verge.
NPR quotes one executive as writing that they had spent months fighting to fix the problem. The executive said they were arguing with people who did not think the harms were severe enough.
The reports do not say which court case the records come from. They also do not include a response from TikTok.
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- The VergeTikTok employees said they knew about child safety issues, but execs failed to actTue, Oct 20, 9:11 AM EDT
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