TikTok has been hit with another lawsuit from former content moderators who claim the job traumatized them.
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Ashley Velez and Reece Young, former contract content moderators for TikTok, allege that their work involved reviewing "unfiltered, disgusting and offensive content," including "child sexual abuse, rape, torture, bestiality, beheadings, suicide, and murder," according to a complaint filed Thursday in a California district court against the popular short-form video platform and its parent company, ByteDance. They accuse the company of negligence, alleging that it failed to provide adequate care to protect moderators from harm and support them after reviewing such content.
"By requiring content moderators to review high volumes of graphic and objectionable content, Defendants require content moderators to engage in abnormally dangerous activities," the complaint alleges, adding that the company is "failing to implement acknowledged best practices to mitigate risks necessarily caused by such work."
TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is the second recent lawsuit alleging that TikTok fails to adequately support its content moderators.
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