Two ex-content moderators allege TikTok failed to provide appropriate counseling services for those exposed to an onslaught of violent and graphic content
According to the lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, the plaintiffs put in grueling 12-hour days to moderate content for TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance and has more than a billion monthly active users. They were one of 10,000 content moderators tasked with ensuring that the uploads to the app fell within TikTok community guidelines.
“We would see death and graphic, graphic pornography. I would see nude underage children every day,” Velez. “I would see people get shot in the face, and another video of a kid getting beaten made me cry for two hours straight.”
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