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to raise its age recommendations from 12 to over 17. The comments Apple made were accidentally made public in South Carolina's complaint against TikTok .
It's also said that TikTok's own employees had concerns about what the company did to limit content containing profanity and eating disorders. For one, profanity was found in one out of every 50 pop-up alerts shown to minors in the US and UK in a month! The lawsuit in South Carolina wasn't the only one that had revealed redacted stuff by mistake though. Kentucky also accidentally made documents public that indicated that TikTok had reportedly found the compulsive usage correlating with negative mental health effects like a decrease in analytical skills and memory formation, and increased anxiety among others.
It's no secret that apps like TikTok and other social media platforms have an interest in keeping people on there, as this is helping them generate revenue from ads. I actually think TikTok is not the only one to blame here, and it's the focus here just because it's very popular with teens.
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