TikTok hit by another lawsuit over working conditions for its content moderators

TikTok has been hit with another lawsuit from former content moderators who claim the job traumatized them

Ashley Velez and Reece Young, former contract content moderators for TikTok, allege that their work involved reviewing"unfiltered, disgusting and offensive content," including"child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide, and murder," according to a complaint filed Thursday in a California district court against the popular short-form video platform and its parent company, ByteDance.

Atrium and Telus did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Although they worked for two different companies, the complaint states that Velez and Young"performed the same tasks, in the same way, using applications provided by" TikTok and ByteDance, and that the social media giant set quotas, monitored and disciplined the moderators.

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