Staaten haben TikTok jahrelang untersucht. Hier sind die Dokumente, die die App geheim zu halten versuchte

Kentucky AG: TikTok users can become ‘addicted’ in 35 minutes
As TikTok’s 170 million U.S. users can attest, the platform’s hyper-personalized algorithm can be so engaging it becomes difficult to close the app. TikTok determined the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos. After that, according to state investigators, a user “is likely to become addicted to the platform.”

In the previously redacted portion of the suit, Kentucky authorities say: “While this may seem substantial, TikTok videos can be as short as 8 seconds and are played for viewers in rapid-fire succession, automatically,” the investigators wrote. “Thus, in under 35 minutes, an average user is likely to become addicted to the platform.”

Another internal document found that the company was aware its many features designed to keep young people on the app led to a constant and irresistible urge to keep opening the app.

TikTok’s own research states that “compulsive usage correlates with a slew of negative mental health effects like loss of analytical skills, memory formation, contextual thinking, conversational depth, empathy, and increased anxiety,” according to the suit.

In addition, the documents show that TikTok was aware that “compulsive usage also interferes with essential personal responsibilities like sufficient sleep, work/school responsibilities, and connecting with loved ones.”

TikTok in crisis mode after report on TikTok Live being ‘strip club filled with 15-year-olds’
After a 2022 report on Forbes about underage kids stripping on TikTok’s live feature, the company launched its own investigation.

That’s when TikTok officials realized there was “a high” number of underage streamers receiving digital currency on the app in the form of a “gift” or “coin” in exchange for stripping — real money converted into a digital currency often in the form of a plush toy or a flower. 

TikTok discovered “a significant” number of adults direct messaging underage TikTokkers about stripping live on the platform.

As part of this internal probe, TikTok officials found that in just one month, 1 million “gifts” were sent to kids engaged in “transactional” behavior.

Like I understand there is a fuck ton wrong with tik tok, but I have learned a fuck ton of cooking tips, money saving ideas, better ways to clean. Like it’s probably something you should not have until you are mid 20s but there is a ton of good there too.

Half the commenters in here are clearly addicted to TikTok and justifying all the terrible shit associated with the platform..

Meanwhile, TrikTok is absolutely mogged by US political propaganda ads paid for by defrauding the US tax payers.

He continued: “We have robust safeguards, which include proactively removing suspected underage users, and we have voluntarily launched safety features such as default screentime limits, family pairing, and privacy by default for minors under 16.”

lol, I have nieces and nephews under the age of 12 that are on Tic Tok.

The app is a fucking cancer.

Addictive Social Media (United States): Epic 😎

Addictive Social Media (Chinese): Evil!