TikTok sued by content moderator disturbed by graphic videos


TikTok is being sued by its content moderators, who claim the frenetic pace of censoring horrific videos has left them traumatised. — AP Photo

TikTok’s 10,000 content moderators are exposed to a regular diet of child pornography, rapes, beheadings and animal mutilation, according to a lawsuit filed against the video-sharing platform and its parent, ByteDance Inc.

It gets worse. Content moderator Candie Frazier says in her proposed class-action lawsuit that she has screened videos involving freakish cannibalism, crushed heads, school shootings, suicides, and even a fatal fall from a building, complete with audio.

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