The same law cost TikTok $5.7 million in 2019 — this time it is $400 million, and the last $100 million is conditional
2026-08-24World
The DoJ and FTC sued TikTok and ByteDance in August 2024 over children's privacy. The settlement is $300 million now and $100 million more once a court vacates the consent decree entered against Musical.ly, TikTok's predecessor — the order from the 2019 case that was supposed to stop this happening again.