A new investigation claims TikTok execs know the app is harming kids why are we letting it happen?

TikTok is harming kids — knowingly.And, while the same could be said of many other social media platforms, there’s nothing more sinister than a Chinese-owned app parasitizing young American minds.New documents from an investigation by Kentucky’s Attorney General Russell Coleman claim TikTok is well aware of kids under 13 using the app — in violation of its own policies — as well as being aware of underage girls stripping on livestreams, and its role in causing sleep deprivation in kids and teens.It’s about time for American parents, politicians, educators and, really, all of us to fight back against TikTok’s stranglehold on 170 million American users, once and for all.Although parts of Coleman’s court-filed evidence were redacted because of a confidentiality agreement made between investigators and TikTok, reporters for Kentucky Public Radio were able to decipher faultily blacked-out material.The 30 pages of redacted material are primarily findings from internal TikTok investigations, documents and communications.

Some of the information was previously public in Nevada and Utah’s investigations into the app.It reveals that 95% of teens with smartphones are on TikTok — and yet, according to the document, TikTok is aware that the platform “interferes with essential personal responsibilities like sufficient sleep, work/school responsibilities, and connecting with loved ones.”A TikTok executive, whose name is redacted, admitted the app prevents “sleep, and eating, and moving around the room, and looking at someone in the eyes.”TikTok also, according to the document, knows that kids under 13 are on their platform, in violation of their community guidelines.And yet moderators on the app were reportedly told by TikTok not to remove accounts reported by other users as underage unless the user’s bio specifically says they’re younger than 13.The document also shows that it takes just 35 minutes — or 260 videos — to get addicted to TikTok...