Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) announced Wednesday that he is suing TikTok for allegedly failing to protect children from mature content and deceiving users about the Chinese government's ability to access their data.
in September that the company doesn’t store U.S. user data in China and doesn’t share any with Bytedance.t alleges that TikTok pushes "salacious and inappropriate content to all young U.S. users 13 and up for unlimited periods of time, day and night, in an effort to line TikTok’s pockets with billions of dollars from U.S. consumers."
The state claims that TikTok presents its platform as safe and appropriate for users between the ages of 13 and 17 but actually allows and recommends searches for mature content, such as posts with "intense" sexual themes or drug references. "In light of this abundant and serious sexual content and mature or suggestive themes, TikTok misleads and deceives Indiana consumers by choosing 'infrequent/mild' to describe the quantity and nature of these types of material," the lawsuit argues.accuses TikTok of misleading consumers about the risk of the Chinese government accessing and exploiting their data, echoing the FBI's warnings about the platform.
"With this pair of lawsuits, we hope to force TikTok to stop its false, deceptive and misleading practices, which violate Indiana law."
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