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‘You never want to leave:’ TikTok employees raise concerns about the app’s impact on teens in newly unsealed video (lite.cnn.com)
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36070056

Current and former TikTok employees have raised concerns internally about how the app’s popular algorithm could hurt young users’ mental health, a newly unsealed video presented as evidence in a North Carolina lawsuit against the company shows.

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[–] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know someone that works there. After a few glasses of wine they get real honest about how it's an insane asylum in there.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A company I worked for moderated for them. They got extra breaks and also a wellness/quite room, because apparently they needed it from all the batshit insane stuff they had to look at.