TikTok sued by parents of UK teens after alleged challenge deaths
Tiktok has been sued by the parents of four British teenagers who are believed to have died after a virus trend circulating on video sharing platforms in 2022.
Isaac Kenevan, Archie Battersbee, Julian Jools, Sweeney and Maia Walsh, the lawsuit alleges that (Maia Walsh) died while trying what is called a “Blackout Challenge.”
The U.S.-based Social Media Victims Law Center filed a wrong death lawsuit against Tiktok and his parent company, Paibaitiktok and his parent company, on behalf of their children’s parents on Thursday.
The BBC has commented on Tiktok.
The complaint is a dance on behalf of Archie’s mother, Holly’s mother, Lisa Kenevan, Jools’ mother, Ellen Room and Maia’s mother Father Liam Walsh filed in the Delaware Superior Court.
It claims death is “a predictable outcome of bondedance design and programming decisions one by one” that “is intended to motivate children to maximize their interaction with Tiktok in any way necessary.”
It accuses a small number of “creating harmful dependencies in every child” through its design and “overwhelms their seemingly endless stream of harm.”
It claims: “These are not harmful to children searching for or want to see when to use Tiktok.”
These families’ lawsuits involve the future of Tiktok in the United States.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to extend the deadline for the app to be banned in the country unless it is sold to another company.
A coroner ended in January 2024 and Hawley Wu’s son Archie died at the age of 12 After “prank or experiment” errors at home on the coast of the sea in April 2022.
Dance lady joins Isaac’s mother, Lisa Kenevan, to try to raise awareness Social media trends about potentially dangerous post-child deaths.
Ellen Room believes her 14-year-old son Jools died after participating in an online challenge, trying to get data from Tiktok to make it clear in his death For the sake of it.
She has been running for “Jools’Law”, If the parent dies, this will allow parents to access their social media accounts.
“My goal is to try to get rid of losing Jools, but rather the family that I have lost the kids and family forward,” she told the BBC in January.
