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Over an 18-month span between 2021 and 2022, the Blackout Challenge was said to have killed 20 children in 18 months, 15 of them under the age of 12. And it’s hardly the only dangerous ...
They both died participating in a deadly TikTok challenge, according to their parents in Texas and Wisconsin. Their families have partnered with the Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC) to file ...
The challenge, which is being shared on various social media platforms, encourages viewers to asphyxiate themselves until they lose consciousness. Asphyxiation is incredibly dangerous and can lead ...
Blackout challenge. The blackout challenge is an internet challenge based around the choking game, which deprives the brain of oxygen. [1] It gained widespread attention on TikTok in 2021, primarily among children. [2] It has been compared to other online challenges and hoaxes that have exclusively targeted a young audience. [3]
A U.S. appeals court revived on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who died attempting a viral challenge she allegedly saw on TikTok that dared people to ...
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against TikTok, accusing the platform of hosting content that led to the death of at least seven children. [20] The lawsuits claim that children died after attempting the "Blackout challenge", a TikTok trend that involves strangling or asphyxiating someone or themselves until they black out (passing out ...
By Nate Raymond. (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral "blackout challenge" in which users ...
On 7 April 2022, a 12-year-old boy, Archie Battersbee, [1] from Southend, Essex, England, was found unconscious by his mother, Hollie Dance, with a dressing gown cord around his neck. Dance performed CPR, and called for an ambulance. [2] The paramedics who attended found that Archie Battersbee had suffered a cardiac arrest and his Glasgow Coma ...