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Attorneys general from 14 states are suing TikTok for harming children's mental health. Internal research accidentally revealed this week indicates TikTok knew its algorithm was harmful.
Short title: 24-656 Tiktok Inc. v. Garland (01/17/2025) File change date and time: 13:54, 16 January 2025: Date and time of digitizing: 13:41, 16 January 2025
Digital media and screen time amongst modern social media apps such as Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook have changed how children think, interact and develop in positive and negative ways, but researchers are unsure about the existence of hypothesized causal links between digital media use and mental health outcomes. Those links appear ...
Early call for 2024 word of the year: TikTok brain. It’s the phenomenon that’s essentially the turbo-charged version of what previous generations shrugged off as “having a short attention ...
Preadolescence is a period when children start to become exposed to social media and is also a period when they start to develop body image concerns and depression. [16] Since individuals posting on social media tend to only present the best version of themselves online, research has shown that this can cause adolescents to perceive others as ...
Research shows that more frequent use of TikTok and other social media can lead to negative effects. The cyberbullying, social exclusion and drama that can occur on these networks have been ...
The challenge has resulted in the deaths of between fifteen and twenty children. [1] [4] Several lawsuits have been filed against TikTok for allegedly causing the deaths of children who have attempted it, though all have ended up in dismissals based on legal immunity. [12] [13] [14]
TikTok has also received criticism for enabling children to purchase coins which they can send to other users. [ 374 ] In February 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that " Mental-health professionals around the country are growing increasingly concerned about the effects on teen girls of posting sexualized TikTok videos."