TikTok is being sued after two young US girls died while copying the 'blackout challenge', report says | Businessinsider

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TikTok is being sued after two young US girls died while copying the 'blackout challenge', report says

TikTok is being sued for wrongful death after two girls died trying to recreate a choking challenge.The choking challenge has been linked to at least 5 other deaths.TikTok is being sued after two young girls died in the USA while trying to recreate a viral trend on the app called the"blackout challenge."

The lawsuits allege that Lalani Erika Walton, 8, and Arriani Jaileen Arroyo, 9, died after copying the trend in which participants try to choke themselves into unconsciousness,The suit alleges that the app's algorithm recommended videos of the strangulation challenge to the young girls.The police took Walton's phone and tablet, and later told her stepmother that she had been watching blackout challenge videos"on repeat," the suit says, according to the newspaper.

Arroyo, from Milwaukee, was found"hanging from the family dog's leash" in her basement, according to the suit. She was taken to hospital and put on a ventilator, but had lost all brain function and was eventually taken off life support, according to the lawsuit, the LA Times reported. They are not the first children to die while allegedly trying to participate in the challenge. Nylah Anderson, 10, similarly died while trying to copy the choking challenge, leading to her motherThe challenge has been linked to at least four other deaths of children ranging from 10 to 14 in

 

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BISouthAfrica Bet there's a policy when signing up that says 'they're not liable for any damages or loss as a result of any use of all materials on this platform' Slow flake generation never wants to take responsibility for anything...

BISouthAfrica This was just bound to happen...

BISouthAfrica That's a china owned app..if you sue them they will create covid 22

BISouthAfrica Why not sueing companies that are selling guns

BISouthAfrica Did Ticktok made them do that at gunpoint?

BISouthAfrica Evolution weeding out the rotten genes

BISouthAfrica If only guns manufactures and the NRA got this treatment for their products as well.. Oh well.

BISouthAfrica Thy must leave tiktok happend simple we all gonna die mus

BISouthAfrica Tik Tok must be banned immediately including a ban on advertising!!

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