TikTok staff raised child safety alarms that executives failed to act on, court records show

NPR reports that employee depositions filed in March 2026 detail warnings about sexual exploitation on TikTok Live, loopholes in age restrictions and repeated exposure to suicide-related content. An internal investigation found 13- to 15-year-olds appeared in 112,000 TikTok Live videos in January 2022, according to employee testimony. TikTok declined to provide a statement for NPR’s story and directed it to previously published policies.