Texas AG Probing TikTok Over Sex Trafficking Claims
Texas is investigating TikTok’s “potential facilitation of human trafficking and child privacy violations,” Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Friday. He issued two civil investigative demands. TikTok “may be complicit in child exploitation, sex trafficking, human trafficking, drug smuggling and…
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other unimaginable horrors,” he said. The CIDs seek information on TikTok’s content moderation policies and practices, its handling of law enforcement requests and user reporting procedures for illegal activity. The company didn’t comment Friday.