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<strong>Moderator sues TikTok</strong>
TikTok’s 10,000 content moderators are exposed to a regular diet of child pornography, rapes, beheadings and animal mutilation, according a lawsuit filed against the video-sharing platform and its its parent, ByteDance Inc (字節跳動). Content moderator Candie Frazier says in her proposed class-action lawsuit that she has screened videos involving freakish cannibalism, crushed heads, school shootings, suicides and even a fatal fall from a building, complete with audio. There is no escaping it, Frazier says. TikTok requires moderators to work at a frantic pace, watching hundreds of videos per 12-hour shift with only one hour off for lunch and
The country controls most of the world’s mined output of rare earths, a broad group of 17 elements that are used in everything from smartphones to fighter jets.
NEW YORK: China has approved a merger of key rare-earths companies, creating a behemoth that will strengthen its control over the global sector it has dominated for decades.