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The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting 'attractive' people
A trove of secret documents show teens’ increasingly reliant on TikTok and how executives were acutely aware of the potential harm the app can cause young people, but appeared unconcerned.
Officials at TikTok discovered that there was “a high” number of underage streamers receiving 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. On Thursday, TikTok spokesman Alex Haurek criticized NPR for reporting on information that is now under a court seal, claiming the material “cherry-picks misleading quotes and takes outdated documents out of context to misrepresent our commitment to community safety.” Also on Friday, a bipartisan pair of senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) wrote a letter to TikTok asking the company to turn over “all documents and information” related to disclosures about child safety on the app, citing NPR’s report.
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