Attorneys general from 13 states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok on Tuesday, alleging that the company deliberately designed the app to be addictive to children.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-sues-tiktok-harming-childrens-mental-health?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

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Attorney General James Sues TikTok for Harming Children’s Mental Health

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Attorneys general from 13 states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok on Tuesday, alleging that the company deliberately designed the app to be addictive to children.  https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2024/attorney-general-james-sues-tiktok-harming-childrens-mental-health?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124   #Digital Wellness 📱🧘

Bobby

Fears about how kids use technology aren’t new, but the intensity of that anxiety has certainly reached new heights. Lawmakers are pledging new regulatory legislation to better protect children—even as the technology continues to rapidly change. Meanwhile, the most active and tech-savvy parents are finding themselves in an uphill battle to keep their families safe. As one mother told our Paris Martineau: “This stuff is like trying to pin down a shadow. The second that you think you’ve done it right, it resets or it updates or the kids get really smart and they find workarounds.”


https://www.theinformation.com/articles/parents-are-so-over-policing-kids-tech-use-a-new-push-for-laws-could-help?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14568&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg&rc=gzsl71

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Fears about how kids use technology aren’t new, but the intensity of that anxiety has certainly reached new heights. Lawmakers are pledging new regulatory legislation to better protect children—even as the technology continues to rapidly change. Meanwhile, the most active and tech-savvy parents are finding themselves in an uphill battle to keep their families safe. As one mother told our Paris Martineau: “This stuff is like trying to pin down a shadow. The second that you think you’ve done it right, it resets or it updates or the kids get really smart and they find workarounds.”   https://www.theinformation.com/articles/parents-are-so-over-policing-kids-tech-use-a-new-push-for-laws-could-help?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14568&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg&rc=gzsl71   #Digital Wellness 📱🧘

Clint and Pam Legaspi tried to take a balanced approach when introducing their now-12-year-old daughter to technology. Her first device was an educational LeapPad tablet, not an iPad. Later, they ignored her requests for an iPhone and instead gave her an iPod Touch, but only after carefully ...

Parents Are So Over Policing Kids’ Tech Use. A New Push for Laws Could Help

Tasia

Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and other social media platforms have an estimated more than 1 million underage users in Australia, a report said. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/underage-users-at-meta-snap-show-widespread-australian-breaches?sref=CrGXSfHu&ref=platformer.news

Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and other social media platforms have an estimated more than 1 million underage users in Australia, a report said.   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/underage-users-at-meta-snap-show-widespread-australian-breaches?sref=CrGXSfHu&ref=platformer.news

Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok, Snapchat and other leading social media platforms probably have more than 1 million underage users in Australia, a regulatory report said, highlighting the scale of policy failure at the companies before the country enforces unprecedented user age limits this year.

Underage Users at Meta, Snap Show Large Australian Breaches

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TikTok has long been aware that its livestreaming feature poses risks to children and is used for money laundering, a newly unredacted lawsuit from Utah’s attorney general claims

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tiktok-knew-about-child-safety-money-laundering-issues-utah-ag-claims?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14239&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg&rc=gzsl71

TikTok has long been aware that its livestreaming feature poses risks to children and is used for money laundering, a newly unredacted lawsuit from Utah’s attorney general claims  https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tiktok-knew-about-child-safety-money-laundering-issues-utah-ag-claims?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-14239&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg&rc=gzsl71

TikTok has long been aware that its livestreaming feature poses risks to children and is used for money laundering, a newly unredacted lawsuit from Utah’s attorney general claims.    The suit, which is one of several filed against TikTok by different states over child safety issues in the past year, claims that TikTok’s livestream feature, TikTok Live, “allows adults to prey on children in many

TikTok Knew About Child Safety, Money Laundering Issues, Utah AG Claims

Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap will have to face lawsuits by school districts accusing them of contributing to a teen mental health crisis with “addictive” apps. 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-24/social-media-giants-must-face-school-districts-addiction-claims?sref=CrGXSfHu&ref=platformer.news&embedded-checkout=true

Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap will have to face lawsuits by school districts accusing them of contributing to a teen mental health crisis with “addictive” apps.   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-24/social-media-giants-must-face-school-districts-addiction-claims?sref=CrGXSfHu&ref=platformer.news&embedded-checkout=true

Cyril

Interesting... the suits are relying on a novel legal strategy, now gaining wider adoption, to hold social media companies accountable for harms critics say they’re causing young people. The approach uses the principles of product liability to circumvent a key legal protection internet companies have relied on for decades—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996—to immunize themselves against claims stemming from user-generated content.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an-asbestos-lawyers-new-crusade-suing-social-media-companies?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124&rc=gzsl71

is detrimental to both their social and mental health.

Truly addictive behavior.

is detrimental to both their social and mental health.  Truly addictive behavior.

Sam Mendoza

Interesting... the suits are relying on a novel legal strategy, now gaining wider adoption, to hold social media companies accountable for harms critics say they’re causing young people. The approach uses the principles of product liability to circumvent a key legal protection internet companies have relied on for decades—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996—to immunize themselves against claims stemming from user-generated content.  https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an-asbestos-lawyers-new-crusade-suing-social-media-companies?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124&rc=gzsl71

In January, after members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had spent hours grilling tech CEOs about their platforms’ effects on children, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley pounced on Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Hawley, a Republican firebrand and a vocal tech critic, accused Zuckerberg of ...

Bobby

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