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Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards
The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it made the app less engaging.
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Two U.S. senators have issued a deadline to TikTok for answers about an experiment that removed a safety feature for about 15 million American users, including a teenager who later died by suicide.
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