TikTok Inc.'s popular social media app violates Utah consumer protection laws by harming children through addiction, depression, and dangerous “challenges,” the state’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The complaint filed in Utah state court said the short-form video sharing service is designed to maximize engagement among younger audiences with a “dopamine-inducing algorithm” that mimics a slot machine. The lawsuit claimed that TikTok users can get trapped in a “filter bubble” that “strings related—and increasingly extreme—videos together in an endless reel.”
TikTok violated the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act by misleading consumers into believing that the app is ...
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