Utah’s lawsuit highlights chat logs from TikTok employees, slides from internal presentations and other communications related to the Forbes report and Project Meramec, which found that hundreds of thousands of minors ages 13 to 15 were hosting livestreams and receiving troubling comments from adults, the lawsuit alleges. — Reuters
TikTok has long known that its popular video livestreams encourage sexual content, including streams exploiting and “grooming” minors, according to a lawsuit by the state of Utah that was unredacted on Jan 3.
TikTok also discovered through an internal investigation that the feature, called TikTok Live, has facilitated money laundering and allowed users to sell drugs and fund terrorism, the lawsuit alleges.
