Also:"We would see death and graphic, graphic pornography. I would see nude underage children every day," Velez said in an interview. "I would see people get shot in the face, and another video of a kid getting beaten made me cry for two hours straight."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.
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.
Maybe it's just me TikTok, but shouldn't this sort of thing ("Torture and even the execution of children"? Really?) be reported to some authority somewhere?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.
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