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TikTok staff warned of child safety risks, but leaders did not respond

By CodeRao Tech Desk · October 23, 2026 · 1 min read
TikTok staff warned of child safety risks, but leaders did not respond

Court documents obtained by NPR reveal that TikTok employees repeatedly alerted the company to dangers its platform posed to minors. Workers expressed frustration that executives failed to act on their concerns, which included children circumventing age‑restricted material and appearing in transactional sexual content that could generate revenue for the firm. The previously undisclosed depositions of TikTok personnel were filed in federal court in March and are tied to a multi‑district litigation launched in 2022. That case consolidates hundreds of lawsuits alleging that TikTok, Meta, Snap and other platforms have harmed children. The full story is available at The Verge.