TikTok Tracked Users Who Watched Gay Content, Prompting Employee Complaints.

Keywords: wsjcorp; kwexclusive; Computer Services; Cloud Computing; Business/Consumer Services; Data Services; Online Service Providers; Media/Entertainment; Social Media Platforms/Tools; Technology EN wsjcorp kwexclusive Computer Services Cloud Computing Business/Consumer Services Data Services Online Service Providers Media/Entertainment Social Media Platforms/Tools Technology N.PAG N.PAG 1 05/09/23 20230506 NES 230506 Company logged categories of content and users on app in effort to boost engagement; spokeswoman says TikTok has restricted access to that data For at least a year, some employees at TikTok were able to find what they described internally as a list of users who watch gay content on the popular app, a collection of information that sparked worker complaints, according to former TikTok employees. Internally, some employees had argued that the data was safe to collect, because it didn't indicate whether users really were members of a particular group, some of the former employees of TikTok said. [Extracted from the article]