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Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards
Two senators have given TikTok a deadline to answer questions about an experiment that withheld a safety feature from 15 million U.S.
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Two senators have given TikTok a deadline to answer questions about an experiment that withheld a safety feature from 15 million U.S. users, including a teenager who later died by suicide. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter to TikTok CEO Shou Chew and Adam Presser, CEO of the company’s U.S. business, calling the company’s decision to run the experiment “depraved.”
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