Thank you for your email dated April 9, 2024, in which you invited TikTok to respond to a report by Focus on Labour Exploitation regarding the exploitation of workers, including migrants from Central Asia, who migrate to the United Kingdom to work in agriculture. The report contains testimony from one worker who alleges that social media platforms including TikTok are used to recruit migrant workers…

TikTok is committed to upholding human dignity and ensuring our platform is not used to take advantage of vulnerable people. Our Community Guidelines explicitly prohibit human exploitation, including trafficking and smuggling. We currently have more than 40,000 trust and safety professionals working to protect our community, and we expect to invest more than two billion dollars in trust and safety efforts this year alone to find and remove this type of content among others as quickly as possible…

We also partner with authorities in the UK to combat human exploitation and trafficking. Since 2021, we have partnered with the National Crime Agency (NCA) on the Social Media Action Plan, a partnership that brings together five major social media companies to fight organised immigration crime…

We recognize that tactics can evolve quickly…