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Tik tok nude users12/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Somebody has to suffer and see this stuff so nobody else has to."Īccording to the suit, Young and Velez were exposed to an unsafe work environment because TikTok did not provide adequate mental health treatment to help deal with the anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress associated with reviewing graphic videos. "People like us have to filter out the unsavory content. "Underage nude children was the plethora of what I saw," said Velez, who now works as an independent contractor for vacation-home rental site Boutiq. Their lawsuit accuses TikTok of negligence and says it broke California labor laws by allegedly not protecting Velez and Young from the emotional trauma caused by reviewing hundreds of "highly toxic and extremely disturbing" videos every week, including videos of animal cruelty, torture and even the execution of children. Velez: "Somebody has to suffer and see this stuff" "You see TikTok challenges, and things that seem fun and light, but most don't know about this other dark side of TikTok that these folks are helping the rest of us never see," said lawyer Steve Williams of the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, which filed the case. On Thursday, Velez and Young sought to do just that. While the plight of moderators is often absent from fights over what content social media platforms allow and what they ban, there is a growing movement to hold tech giants accountable for the welfare of these workers on the front lines of that debate. Its success depends in no small part on the work of moderators like Velez who toil behind the scenes to scrub TikTok of distressing content before the masses see it. The Chinese-owned app is the envy of Silicon Valley social media giants and has more than 1 billion monthly active users. Now, Velez and another former TikTok moderator, Reece Young, have filed a federal lawsuit seeking class action status against the video-sharing app and its parent company, ByteDance. Velez worked for TikTok from May to November 2021, one of some 10,000 content moderators worldwide who police videos on the platform, making sure it remains an endless feed of lighthearted content, rather than a cesspool of violent and disturbing videos.
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