“TikTok is a wolf in sheep's clothing,” one of the lawsuits, filed in state court, said.
about the safety of its users’ data. Both the FBI and officials at the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance could share TikTok user data with China’s authoritarian government.
One of the lawsuits claims that TikTok isn’t taking proper steps to protect minors who use the platform from inappropriate content, including sexual content and material depicting drug or alcohol use. TikTok did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment Tuesday.“We have watched over the past decade as one social media company after another has exploited our kids for profit and escaped government oversight,” Sanders said in a statement released by her office.
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