Tik tok

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L'articolo che ho postato oltre che in inglese è anche parecchio lungo.

Ne metto degli estratti, considerando che tra le fonti ci sono proprio i documenti interni dell'azienda:

TikTok’s executives and employees have admitted that they target young Americans, stating:“It’s better to have young people as an early adopter, especially the teenagers in the U.S. Why? They [sic] got a lot of time.”“Teenagers in the U.S. are a golden audience . . . . If you look at China, the teenage culture doesn’t exist — the teens are super busy in school studying for tests, so they don’t have the time and luxury to play social media apps.”

TikTok knows that the harmful effects of its Platform wreak havoc on the mental health of millions of American children and teenagers and harms them. Its executives have admitted:[I]“The product in itself has baked into it compulsive use.”“The reason kids watch TikTok is because the algo[rithm] is really good. . . . But I think we need to be cognizant of what it might mean for other opportunities. And when I say other opportunities, I literally mean sleep, and eating, and moving around the room, and looking at somebody in the eyes.”
The ‘TikTank’ [internal TikTok group studying issues affecting TikTok] Report observed that “Tiktok is particularly popular with younger users who are particularly sensitive to reinforcement in the form of social reward and have minimal ability to self-regulate effectively.”As an internal guide on push notifications explained, a key goal of TikTok’s push notifications is to “Activate & Engage users with the right content at the right time, to encourage users to open the App more and stay longer.” TikTok uses different kinds of push notifications to achieve this goal. For example, TikTok’s “Interest Push” aims to “activate users so they will return to the app.”“TikTok’s success can largely be attributed to strong out of the box personalization and automation, which limits user agency[.]”Despite admitting internally that LIVE poses “cruel[]” risks to minors— encouraging “addiction and impulsive purchasing of virtual items,” leading to “financial harm,” and putting minors at “developmental risk”—TikTok continues to use manipulative features to increase the time and money users spend on the app. [This quote is referencing TikTok’s LIVE feature]

TikTok’s success “can largely be attributed to strong . . . personalization and automation, which limits user agency” and a “product experience utiliz[ing] many coercive design tactics,” including “numerous features”—like “nfinite scroll, auto-play, constant notifications,” and “the ‘slot machine’ effect”—that “can be considered manipulative.”
“TikTok is in most people’s lives like this,” “go on tiktok for 5 mins and 3 hours have passed” and “my night routine: watch 3 hours of tiktok videos, try to follow the dance steps, realise u suck at dancing n cry about it, continue watching tiktok videos, sleep.”
“Persuasive design strategies exploit the natural human desire to be social and popular, by taking advantage of an individual’s fear of not being social and popular in order to extend their online use. For young people, identity requires constant attention, curation and renewal. At key development stages it can be overwhelmingly important to be accepted by your peer group.”

The TikTank [internal TikTok group studying issues affecting TikTok] Report also found that “compulsive usage correlates with a slew of negative mental health effects like loss of analytical skills, memory formation, contextual thinking, conversational depth, empathy, and increased anxiety.” Additionally, “compulsive usage also interferes with essential personal responsibilities like sufficient sleep, work/school responsibilities, and connecting with loved ones.”

The Division’s presuit investigation also confirmed that TikTok’s platform facilitates the sale of illegal drugs to underage children right here at our doorstep—including easily allowing TikTok users to offer the sale and delivery of drugs like Xanax, Valium, and MDMA to children in Salt Lake City.


In early 2022, TikTok’s internal investigation of LIVE, called “Project Meramec,” revealed shocking findings. Hundreds of thousands of children between 13 and 15 years old were bypassing TikTok’s minimum age restrictions, hosting LIVE sessions, and receiving concerning messages from adults. The project confirmed that LIVE “enable[d the] exploitation of live hosts” and that TikTok profited significantly from “transactional gifting” involving nudity and sexual activity, all facilitated by TikTok’s virtual currency system.

These underage users also received a significant number of direct messages from adult users, raising red flags to TikTok that these minors were likely being groomed by adults. Project Meramec revealed that TikTok received not only “significant revenue” from “transactional gifting”—to the tune of one million Gifts in January 2022 alone—but also that this revenue was in large part generated through transactions for sexual content.

In September 2022—five months after the Forbes story—an investigator found that “within minutes of browsing the [LIVE] feed” they were shown underage girls providing sexually suggestive content in exchange for money and young boys using filters to pose as girls to receive Gifts.


Intanto credo che l'appoggio affinchè venga tolto il ban è bello forte anche perchè viene molto usato nella sedicente lotta per i diritti civili
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