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Elizabeth Lopatto
“I do TikTok to rip people off.”

Caveat emptor, but especially on TikTok. There’s a moderation problem for their ecommerce business, The Financial Times reports:

Three TikTok employees said cleaning up fraudulent content on the app and monitoring its ballooning number of merchants seemed to have fallen by the wayside amid a frantic push for growth.

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