New unresolved and edited videos showing concern to Ticketkok’s employees and advisors showing that the app’s potentially intoxicated addiction may damage the mental health of the users.
The video compilation, shared with CBS News by the Northern Carolina Department of Justice, is part of the evidence in the 2024 trial, former Attorney General of the state and other prosecutors filed against Tikok accused the company of misleading the public about the safety of social media platforms.
Adam Conrad, Judge of North Carolina Special Superior Court on Tuesday ordered the video and complaint to be ignored. In a separate judgment, he also denied a proposal by Tikok’s original company, China-based biodens, to dismiss the North Carolina trial.
In a statement to CBS News, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson said, “These clips clearly show that social media companies know that they are designing their apps to hook our children even at the cost of their health.” “This is why the company worked so hard to keep the video out of public eyes.”
A Ticketkok spokesperson called the video “an embarrassing attempt to distort an open internal conversation about making the stage safe, when Tiktok began five years ago,” in a statement by CBS Manivatch.
He said, “This manipulation depends on the interactions with the reference to confuse the public and with the sole purpose of grandeur,” he said.
The spokesperson also stated that Tikokok has more than 70 features and settings designed to support the safety and welfare of adolescents and other app users. Those features include 60 minutes of daily screen time You limit And another that automatically triggers a guided focus Exercise After 10 pm for teenage users scrolling on Tiktok.
In a complaint issued in October 2024, former Northern Carolina Attorney General Joshua Stein accused the design of Tikokkok on “highly, binding and addictive use” and the company knew that the damage caused by it was known. Stein also claimed that Tikokok ignored the addiction nature of the app “because their business model and advertising revenue will require consumers to be placed on the app as much as possible.”
Part of the lawsuit Comprehensive litigation On allegations against Tiktok that it is harmful to mental health of children brought by 14 state attorney generals last year. Attorney General of Minnesota joined the fight this week With a separate trial,
Tikok has denied claims.
“We are strongly disagree with these claims, many of which we consider wrong and misleading,” the Tikok spokesperson said in a statement at that time. “We are proud and deepened for the work we have done for the safety of the teenager and we will continue to update and improve our product.”
“Never leave”
The 3 1/2-minute video released this week has a series of clips of internal company meetings, describing the speakers what they see as the harmful characteristics of the Tikkok app, some of which include some of which promote “binding use”.
According to a spokesperson of the Northern Carolina Department of Justice, the meetings in the video were held a few years ago, who said they were unable to disclose accurate dates.
“We clearly wanted people to spend as much time as possible on Tikok, which is best for your mental health, the contrary,” said Eli Mann, “LinkedIn, whose LinkedIn profile listed him as a manufacturer marketing and events.
In a separate clip, Ashlane Sepulveda, which is labeled in the company as a work on confidence and safety in the video, describes the possible disadvantages of the Ticketkok algorithm, which she says that she selects material based on users’ discoveries.
“For example, to eat food disorders,” Sipulveda said in the video. “The more the user sees things about fitness or diet, it turns into weight loss and then soon the ‘feed for this user’ is a truly soft disorganized food behavior for you completely, there is no opportunity to remove themselves from that bubble by their companions.”
In another clip, Brett Peters, who according to his LinkedIn Profile, is the global head of the manufacturer advocacy and prestige in Tikok, said that the target of Tikok is to produce such a variety of materials that “you never want to leave the app”.
Three-three percent of the teenagers said that they used Tiktok in 2023, According For research center pole.
Meanwhile, Tikok continues to face an uncertain future because it reduces a time limit, Recently extended On 17 September by President Trump, the app needs to be separated from its China-based original company or banning in the US.
