Internals leaked
What TikTok knows about the danger of the addiction algorithm
More than a dozen US states have recently filed a lawsuit against TikTok. The short video app is accused of making children and young people addicted. On Friday, a challenge even ended fatally for a 15-year-old girl from Vienna. TikTok rejects the allegations, but internal documents that have now been leaked show that they are not intended for the public: The company has probably been aware of the danger posed by its algorithm for years.
The attorneys general of 13 US states and the capital Washington filed a lawsuit against the subsidiary of the Chinese ByteDance Group a few days ago - krone.at reported. They accuse TikTok of having deliberately designed its platform in such a way that children and young people wanted to spend more and more time there. In this context, reference was made to functions such as the option to keep scrolling with automatically starting videos. They argue that this makes children in particular addicted to more.
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