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TikTok’s research reportedly acknowledges negative effects on teens
Court documents suggest that TikTok executives are aware of the app's potential harm to teenagers, according to reporting by NPR and Kentucky Public
Court documents suggest that TikTok executives are aware of the app’s potential harm to teenagers, according to reporting by NPR and Kentucky Public Radio. According to Kentucky’s lawsuit, the company’s own research shows 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.” A TikTok spokesperson said it was “highly irresponsible” for NPR to publish excerpts from the lawsuit, which he claimed “cherry-picks misleading quotes and takes outdated documents out of context to misrepresent our commitment to community safety.”
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