TikTok Moderation Shake-up ‘Risks Exposing Children to Joyriding and Gang Content’, Say Insiders

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Senators Marsha Blackburn (Republican, Tennessee) and Richard Blumenthal (Democratic, Connecticut) this week sent a letter to TikTok calling the platform's behavior "depraved" after it became known that the company conducted an experiment that deliberately deactivated a security filter for 10% of its American users—about 15 million people—to assess whether that filter reduced engagement. The filter in question was designed to prevent the algorit…