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Fourteen American states presented yesterday lawsuits against the platform TikTokwhich they accuse of trapping young users with addictive featuresand then harm their minds and violate their privacy.
The wave of lawsuits in local courts, demanding corrective measures y economic sanctionscomes as the popular short video app is at risk of being suspended in USA If it does not change ownership, currently the Chinese company ByteDance.
“Our research revealed that TikTok cultivates addiction to social networks to increase profits,” said the attorney general of California, Rob Bontain a press release. “TikTok “It intentionally targets children because it knows that children do not yet have the defenses or ability to impose healthy limits on addictive content,” he added.
Features like beauty filtersinfinite scrolling from one video to the next, auto-play videos and likes, exploit the youthful curiosity and lack of strength of will to stop, Bonta maintains.
TikTok then bombards young users with ads to make money, the lawsuits allege. TikTok called the claims inaccurate and misleading.