Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits.

TikTok lures children into hours of social media use, misrepresents the app’s safety and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, Utah claims in the lawsuit.

“We will not stand by while these companies fail to take adequate, meaningful action to protect our children. We will prevail in holding social media companies accountable by any means necessary,” Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit, which was filed in state court in Salt Lake City.

  • Piecemakers
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    199 months ago

    Utah. Sacred home of the Mormon cult. Is suing, unironically I might add, for the above reasons…

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        89 months ago

        Somebody needs to bleed that cult ASAP. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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            9 months ago

            Well, at least until someone commandeers their colony ship, right? 🤞🏼