TikTok was set to pay $1B in 2024 over kids privacy breaches – years before DOJ’s sweetheart $400M deal: sources
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May 18, 2026
TikTok is nearing a $400 million truce with President Trump’s Justice Department over child data privacy breaches – a sweetheart deal as the social-media app was willing to pay $1 billion to settle the same claims in 2024, The Post has learned.
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