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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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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have four daughters that I never let on social media. They are intelligent, bright, and can use technology well. Your kids are not missing anything by not being on social media. If it is corporate ran it is cancer period.