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TikTok is sued for causing the death of a girl-Information Technology

Monday, May 16, 2022 15:15 PM (GMT+7)

According to the New York Post, a mother in Pennsylvania (USA) has filed a lawsuit against TikTok because challenges on the platform caused her 10-year-old daughter to suffocate and die.

Tawainna Anderson said her daughter, Nylah Anderson, joined the Blackout challenge after it appeared in the For You section on TikTok by Nylah last December.

The Blackout challenge is a challenge that forces participants to use household objects to suffocate themselves until they pass out. After waking up, I will share this feeling with other TikTok users.

According to the complaint, Anderson found Nylah motionless in her bedroom on December 7 and rushed her to the hospital. However, the girl died 5 days later.

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According to the lawsuit, the Blackout challenge resulted in the deaths of at least four other people, but TikTok did not fix its algorithm to prevent users from being exposed to the challenge.

After Anderson filed a lawsuit against TikTok, a company spokesperson said that the challenge has been around for a long time on other platforms, and the company has never made it a trend on TikTok.

Speaking to Bloomberg, Anderson’s attorney said that the Blackout challenge also exists on other social media apps, but forensic analysis of Nylah’s cell phone shows that the girl joined the challenge from TikTok.

When you try to search for the hashtag “#blackoutchallenge” on TikTok, you will not see any results. TikTok also warned that the keyword phrase could be related to community standards violations, banning content that “depicts, promotes, normalizes, or glorifies dangerous actions or challenges.” dangerous”.

This is not the first time TikTok has appeared dangerous trends, such as blindfolded driving, Devious licks (disrupting school objects), Tide Pod (challenging each other to eat laundry detergent pellets and post reactions). On Facebook, YouTubeInstagram)…

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