Frances Haugen says she was told TikTok lacked Swahili-speaking moderators during Kenya election violence

What was said

"within a year after I came out there was violence in Kenya around the elections that was fanned by Tik Tok. And if you look at the drivers you know they're actually related. So I I talked to someone at Tik Tok and they said when the violence was taking place there were no moderators at Tik Tok that spoke Swahili."

Frances Haugen claims that violence around elections in Kenya was “fanned” on TikTok, and says she spoke to someone at TikTok who told her that, during the violence, the company had no content moderators who spoke Swahili. She presents it as an example of platforms scaling into higher-risk environments without adequate local-language safety coverage.