Our revealing NPR investigation uncovers what Tik Tok executives knew about the addictive and harmful nature of the social media platform on teens.

What's more, it's been discovered that kids as young as 15 were stripping on TikTok for paying adults.

We told you Friday about how a Kentucky based reporter brought to light faulty redactions from a lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general's office.

Kentucky and more than a dozen other states are suing TikTok for the mental health dangers it poses to teens.

Kentucky Public Radio's state capital reporter Sylvia Goodman unveiled the secret internal communications showing a disregard for their ineffective tools to limit usage and knowledge of the algorithms that prolong kids use that keep them from eating, sleeping and even making eye contact and so much more.

And a continuation of my conversation with Sylvia from Friday.

She talked with us about the end goal of the 14 states attorneys generals and suing TikTok and where things go from here.

You know, it's important to note that these are all happening on the state level here.

So they're each focused on their states consumer protection laws.

And they can each pursue they can each progress differently depending on the state, and they can each take different legal tactics as well.

So it's not like a federal lawsuit where they're all combined and they're all making moves together.

So in this specific lawsuit, can Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is suing based on Kentucky's consumer protection laws, and he is asking for, I believe it's $2,000 for each violation of the consumer Protection law.

And he's also asking that that TikTok be removed, that their profits that they've gained from violation against minors be taken away from them.

So they cannot profit from what the attorney general alleges is harming minors.

And he's also asking for the judge to issue an injunction against this behavior in the future.

Let's talk about how you came across all of this.

Right, because as we understand it, you took the redacted documents from Kentucky.

Attorney General Russell Coleman is the one, the documents he had.

And you were able to see the redacted or blacked out elements of those documents.

How did you do that?

Sure.

So really how it started at the very beginning is our incredible enterprise capital.

Reporter Joe Songer just told me, Oh, I think this lawsuit is going to come in sometime today in Scott County of all places, which is not probably where you'd expect the attorney general to be making moves.

And I just was checking for that lawsuit regularly.

Honestly, I didn't think it would be a huge story.

I mean, like we said, this is being filed in 13 other states.

It had already been filed in many of those states, and we'd seen plenty of reporting out of them.

And then I finally got this document back.

I noticed large portions redacted, which is not necessarily unusual, but it certainly is noteworthy.

And honestly, every time I receive redaction, I do a few things to see if I can get behind it, because oftentimes this is information that is of value to the public.

I obviously don't want to be revealing personal information about someone or things like that.

But when it comes to especially a lawsuit like this of such public interest, I wanted to see what was behind that.

And I wish I could say I used some incredible technique.

I used some high tech software, but it really wasn't.

I just was checking if the text underneath that redaction was intact.

And it was and I was able to literally copy and paste it and paste it into a new document.

I mean, we're talking the lowest level of technological awareness here.

And I was able to read every single word of the redaction.

Well, I'm sure the attorney general's office wasn't pleased about this.

Right.

What was their response to your finding?

So the attorneys, the attorney general was not pleased, from my understanding, immediately or soon after I reported some early reporting on excerpts of that redaction.

On the local level, they filed in state court to have the complaint sealed and the judge accepted that that was yesterday afternoon, that the judge said that it was okay to seal that document.

But I got it originally as a public document and the redaction was faulty and I was able to get all that information when it was still a public document.

So where do we go from here, Sylvia?

We know that this story I mean, not to say that's just the beginning because you've been working on this for a while, but for those of us who are just now reading you and Joe Saga and NPR's reporting, I mean, this has got a whole nother life to it right now.

It definitely does.

I mean, one of the things I was talking about when I was working with NPR reporters is that basically every paragraph of this redaction feels like a story of its own.

I could go into depth about each one.

I mentioned one of them about the internal investigation into their screen time nudges and their own guardrails.

But there's a lot more to dig into here, really, and we'll continue to do that and continue to look into it.

But as far as this lawsuit itself goes, these I suspect, will take a long time.

I mean, lawsuits that this kind of caliber of this reach are going to take a long time.

And so will I might expect to still be looking into this years from now.

And Washington is taking notice of the NPR report.

On Friday, a bipartisan pair of senators, Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Tennessee Republican Marsha Blackburn, have asked tick tock to turn over, quote, all documents and information related to disclosures about child safety.