Families Sue Tiktok After Girls Die While Trying Blackout Challenge Tik Tok
The parents of two girls who died in a 2021 “blackout challenge” on TikTok that encouraged users to choke themselves until they passed out filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Represented by the Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC), a legal resource for parents of children harmed by social media addiction and abuse, they claim that the platform’s “dangerous algorithm intentionally and repeatedly” pushed videos of the challenge into children’s feeds, giving them motivation....