The state of Utah has filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the platform's open-door policy allows predators and criminals to exploit users, particularly children. The lawsuit, based on internal TikTok documents, claims the company was aware of misuse of its TikTok Live feature for child sexual exploitation and other criminal activities like money laundering, drug sales, and funding terrorist groups. Utah's attorney general argues TikTok knowingly monetized the exploitation of minors through its platform.
TikTok is facing a lawsuit by the state of Utah due to ‘an open-door policy allowing predators and criminals to exploit users’.TikTok is facing a lawsuit by the state of Utah due to ‘an open-door policy allowing predators and criminals to exploit users’.TikTok has long been aware that its video livestream feature has been misused to harm children, according to newly revealed details in a lawsuit brought against the social media company by the state of Utah .
On Friday, Utah’s office of the attorney general released a mostly unredacted version of the suit. TikTok had tried to keep the documents confidential, but a district court judge ruled to unseal the evidence on 19 December,“Online exploitation of minors has exploded, leading to depression, isolation, and other tragedies such as suicide, addiction, and trafficking,” Utah’s attorney general, Sean Reyes, said in aon Friday.
The spokesperson said people have to be at least 18 years old to use the live feature and that TikTok offers customizable safety tools for users. But, according to the unredacted version of Utah’s lawsuit, TikTok Live was so lucrative that “the company slow-rolled implementing safety measures”. The company’s investigators said they found a “never-ending stream” of creators who openly admitted they were 14 and 15 years old and held signs on camera that said what they’d do for a specific gift emoji. According to the lawsuit, those signs reportedly said things like “Rose=say daddy”, “ice cream=360 spin” and “universe=cut shirt”.“The advocates said they reported the streams through TikTok’s internal reporting tools, but TikTok found they did not violate its policies,” the lawsuit reads.
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