Families are suing TikTok for problems with their children

Seven French families have TikTok together tell. The content of that app is said to have seriously damaged the minds of teenagers from the families. Two of them killed themselves. The other children are said to have self-harmed or developed an eating disorder after watching TikTok videos.

One of the mothers said yes French media that her child ended up in a negative spiral due to TikTok’s algorithm. The girl took refuge on the app, which “recorded her searches and offered increasingly disturbing content. The algorithm gave her images that children of that age should never see.” This would include images of self-harm.

“My image of TikTok consisted of dance videos and makeup tutorials,” said one father. He says that he never thought that there were videos circulating on the app explaining how to hurt yourself.

Finally year, the parents of one of the girls who died already filed a report. Now they are suing the video app again, but this time with other victims. This is the first general lawsuit of this kind against TikTok in Europe.

The families want the company to be held responsible for harming the mental health of the teenagers. They believe that the app “makes a mistake by not modeling this harmful content.” They also believe that the company should have warned about the risk of addiction. is included in the application.

TikTok says it cannot comment on the matter. The families and the lawyer did not contact the company and do not know the legal content of the case. TikTok said it was made aware of the allegations through the media. The company has previously stated that it takes children’s mental health issues seriously.

This is one of the many issues that the company with over a billion users has to deal with. So complain VS last month the app and its parent company ByteDance were accused of not adequately protecting children’s privacy.