[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-tiktok-staff-warned-executives-about-child-safety-filings-show":10,"sections":44},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":43,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":43,"total_tokens":43},11900,"tiktok-staff-warned-executives-about-child-safety-filings-show","TikTok Staff Warned Executives About Child Safety, Filings Show","Depositions in a consolidated federal case describe TikTok employees raising child safety concerns that, they said, executives did not act on.","TikTok employees repeatedly warned the company about risks the platform posed to children, and several were frustrated that executives did not act, according to court records obtained by NPR.\n\nThe records are depositions (sworn out-of-court testimony) from TikTok staffers. They were filed in federal court in March and had not been reported before. The employees described concerns including minors getting around age restrictions on content, and minors appearing in \"transactional sexual content\" that the company could profit from.\n\nThe depositions belong to a multi-district litigation, a procedure that groups related federal cases before one court. This one began in 2022 and combines hundreds of lawsuits alleging harm to young users by TikTok, Meta, Snap and other platforms. TikTok is one defendant among several, and the case is about the industry's design choices as much as any one company's.\n\nThe testimony matters because of what it speaks to. In litigation over product harm, internal warnings bear on what a company knew and when, which is often harder to establish than the harm itself. Staff who say they raised alarms and were ignored give plaintiffs a different kind of evidence than outside research does.\n\nThe limits are plain. Depositions are testimony, not rulings, and no response from TikTok was included in the reporting. Nor does the reporting say which executives received the warnings or what, if anything, the company changed afterward. 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