PARIS: Seven French families have filed a lawsuit towards social media massive TikTok, accusing the platform of revealing their adolescent kids to dangerous content material that led to 2 of them taking their personal lives at 15, their attorney stated on Monday. The lawsuit alleges TikTok’s algorithm uncovered the seven teens to motion pictures selling suicide, self-harm and consuming disorders, attorney Laure Boutron-Marmion told broadcaster franceinfo. The households are taking joint legal movement in the Créteil judicial courtroom. Boutron-Marmion said it changed into the first such grouped case in Europe. “The mother and father want TikTok’s criminal legal responsibility to be known in courtroom”, she stated, including: “This is a industrial agency providing a product to consumers who’re, further, minors. They should, consequently, answer for the product’s shortcomings.” TikTok, like different social media platforms, has lengthy faced scrutiny over the policing of content material on its app. As with Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, it faces hundreds of court cases within the US accusing them of engaging and addicting thousands and thousands of youngsters to their platforms, negative their intellectual health. TikTok couldn’t right away be reached for comment on the allegations. The company has previously stated it took problems that had been related to children’s intellectual health significantly. CEO Shou Zi Chew this yr advised US lawmakers the organisation has invested in measures to shield younger people who use the app.
