States Sue TikTok Over Children’s Mental Health

TIME

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids.

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00:00The state of California today is announcing a lawsuit against TikTok. We're filing in state

00:04court. We're bringing claims based on our false advertising law and our unfair competition law

00:08because TikTok has intentionally and deliberately manipulated and hurt knowingly young people

00:17through its platform. It has promoted excessive and addictive and compulsive use by design

00:26of our children through its different features from autoplay and infinite scroll to its likes

00:32to its beauty filter. I think there are parents throughout the state and this nation who are

00:38rightfully worried about their children's mental health, their safety, their well-being because of

00:44the use of social media and its ubiquity, its omnipresence. I know our parents are worried.

00:52I'm worried. I'm also fed up and will not tolerate multinational corporations,

01:02this American corporation, specifically targeting our young people and knowingly harming them.

01:09That's why we're suing TikTok today. We're proud to stand with states across the nation, again,

01:18multi-state, bipartisan, holding TikTok accountable for harming our youth.

01:25We will not stop until our young people are safe and healthy. We will always stand up for

01:31our young people and have the backs of our parents across the state and across this nation.

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