Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting ‘attractive’ people

People work inside the TikTok Inc. building in Culver City, Calif., on March 11. Damian Dovarganes/AP

Damian Dovarganes/AP

Kids as young as 15 were stripping on TikTok’s live feature fueled by adults who were paying for it.

That’s what TikTok learned when it launched an internal investigation after a report on Forbes. Officials at TikTok discovered that there was “a high” number of underage streamers receiving a “gift” or “coin” in exchange for stripping — real money converted into a digital currency often in the form of a plush toy or a flower.

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