TikTok Refuses to Give Senators Sealed Report on Safety Algorithm Test

Two U.S. senators have branded TikTok’s refusal to turn over a sealed 2023 internal document about an algorithmic safety experiment as “appalling” and “offensive,” after a company lawyer cited ongoing litigation and declined to answer congressional questions by a Sept. 1 deadline. The document, which has now been made public, details a test that withheld a recommendation safeguard from millions of U.S. users, including a teenager who later died by suicide.