< IMG SRC = "/Uploads/Blogs/64/EA/IB-FQ391CAOR_16240DF4.jpg" Alt = "in Britain against Tiktok filed a lawsuit with the death of teenagers"/> < p > In Britain, the parents of four teenagers filed a collective lawsuit against Tiktok because of the death of their children. According to them, the children were killed because of the challenge social network, reports The Guardian.
< p > it is stated that the claim states that 13-year-old Izek Knevan, 12-year-old Archi Battersby, 14-year-old Julian Suini and 13-year-old Maya Volsh were killed in 2022 while trying to participate in Blackout Challenge, which became popular on social networks in 2021.
< p >The publication shared that on Thursday, February 6, the legal center for victims of social networks, which is located in the United States, filed a lawsuit against an illegal death against Tiktok's social media platform and its parent company Bytedance on behalf of parents of dead children. < P > “It is no coincidence that three of the four children who died of self -collapse after participation in the dangerous and deadly Challenge Tiktok lived in one city and that they all corresponded to a similar demographic group,” – said the founder of the Law Center For the victims of Matthew Bergman's social networks.
< P > According to him, Tiktok algorithms deliberately offered these children dangerous content to increase their time of interaction with the platform. However, the social network representatives assured journalists that since 2020 the search for video or hashtags related to Blackout Challenge is blocked.
< P > In addition, the Tiktok claim was accused of “dangerous and addictive, a product that positions itself as fun and safe for children.” It also contains a statement that Tiktok deliberately promotes dangerous challengi.
< P > Representatives of the Law Center for Victims of Social Networks told reporters that other claims were filed against Tiktok. They are, in particular, due to the fact that the platform shows a subject that contains scenes of suicide, injury and eating disorders.
< p > stressed that the parents of dead children have tried to achieve justice since 2022. Some of them wanted to obtain a legal right to access their children's accounts on social networks to find out the truth about their deaths.