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Chief executive of TikTok, the short-video app owned by ByteDance, representing the company before regulators and lawmakers on safety and content issues.
Musical.ly paid $5.7mn in 2019 over the same statute. The DOJ's complaint treats registration-flow design as the violation, which makes age-gating a documented enforcement target.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal cite a sealed 2023 document showing TikTok withheld an anti-echo-chamber safeguard from 10% of US users, and they want a list of every other such test.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal want a list of every TikTok experiment that held back a safety feature. That request, not the letter's adjectives, is the part product teams should read.
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Three hundred million dollars moves now. The last hundred million is released only when a court vacates the 2019 order that was supposed to stop the conduct in the first place.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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