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Officials across 14 states are suing TikTok for what they say is an addictive algorithm that endangers children's mental and physical health. TikTok knew its algorithm harmed kids, accidentally ...
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 ...
Utah sued Chinese-owned app TikTok on Tuesday, accusing it of harming children by intentionally keeping young users spending unhealthy amounts of time on the short-video sharing platform. Last ...
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 ...
As TikTok has gained popularity among young children, [199] and the popularity of extremist and hateful content is growing, calls for tighter restrictions on their flexible boundaries have been made. TikTok has since released tougher parental controls to filter out inappropriate content and to ensure they can provide sufficient protection and ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...