Three hundred current employees at TikTok and its parent company ByteDance previously worked for Chinese state media publications, according to public employee LinkedIn profiles reviewed by Forbes.| Forbes
Some of the ads include descriptions of sexual violence, paired with images of battered women and photos of male fitness influencers, which were used without permission.| Forbes
The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.| Forbes
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has launched a Meta-backed platform to help kids and teens get naked or sexual content of themselves removed from social media.| Forbes
Private accounts on TikTok have become portals to some of the most dangerous and disturbing content on the internet.| Forbes
Apple spent years trying to design a system to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud. When the company scrapped it, child protection investigators were frustrated. But Apple’s privacy-first approach gained plenty of fans in the process.| Forbes
Utah’s governor and attorney general announced a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging youth are pushed to perform sexually suggestive acts for gifts and money on TikTok Live.| Forbes