California and 13 other states sue TikTok over alleged harm to teens.
Another significant development on Tuesday over the role of social media in the lives of children. California Attorney General Rob Bonta – joined by several other states – filed legal action against TikTok. The lawsuits claim the social media company is deliberately preying on kids with algorithms to keep them hooked.Attorney General Bonta said there are 16 million users of TikTok in California and about one-third of all kids between the ages of 13 and 17 use the service.
TikTok has known that, they have their own internal studies that show that, they know they are harming children with their beauty filter and they do it anyway," Bonta said."Governments across the globe, including here in the United States, have absolutely decided that they want to control how social media operates," said Professor Eric Goldman, co-director of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute.
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