Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards
2 sources·Updated August 20, 2026
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- The News Biz PK·11h agoSenators give TikTok deadline over 'depraved' safety test
Senators give TikTok deadline over 'depraved' safety testTwo senators have given TikTok until September 1 to explain an internal experiment that kept a safety feature away from 15 million US users, including a teenager who later died by suicide.Senators Marsha Blackburn and…
Read at The News Biz PK → - TechCrunch·11h agoSenators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards
The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.
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