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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9:22 AM PDT · August 20, 2026
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Two senators have given TikTok a deadline to answer questions about an experiment that withheld a safety feature from 15 million U.S. users, including a teenager who later died by suicide.
The company withheld an algorithmic safeguard from roughly 15 million users, including minors, according to a confidential…
TikTok faces US senators’ scrutiny over a secret safety experiment that exposed millions, including minors, to harmful content.
Two senators gave TikTok until 1 September to answer 13 questions about the safety experiment it ran on 15 million US users.
The demand comes as a cascade of lawsuits over social media's allegedly harmful and addictive designs are playing out in courts…
Según dos senadores estadounidenses, Tiktok anuló en 2023 una función de seguridad en forma temporal para el 10% de sus usuarios…
A confidential review found that a teen who later died by suicide was among the users placed in the experiment’s control group.
TikTok's safety experiment: 13 questions, one deadline
