Court documents on some of the inner workings of TikTok paint a picture of a tech company repeatedly warned by its own staff about the dangers its platform posed to minors — and then ignoring many of those warnings. According to an investigation from NPR, unsubmitted depositions from an ongoing multistate trial against TikTok, Meta,
Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a landmark lawsuit brought by 29 states alleging the company deliberately engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, marking the largest single settlement in the company’s history and the biggest tech-industry payout ever recorded in a single case. Meta’s press release
