More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids.
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00:00The state of California today is announcing a lawsuit against TikTok. We're filing in state
00:04court. We're bringing claims based on our false advertising law and our unfair competition law
00:08because TikTok has intentionally and deliberately manipulated and hurt knowingly young people
00:17through its platform. It has promoted excessive and addictive and compulsive use by design
00:26of our children through its different features from autoplay and infinite scroll to its likes
00:32to its beauty filter. I think there are parents throughout the state and this nation who are
00:38rightfully worried about their children's mental health, their safety, their well-being because of
00:44the use of social media and its ubiquity, its omnipresence. I know our parents are worried.
00:52I'm worried. I'm also fed up and will not tolerate multinational corporations,
01:02this American corporation, specifically targeting our young people and knowingly harming them.
01:09That's why we're suing TikTok today. We're proud to stand with states across the nation, again,
01:18multi-state, bipartisan, holding TikTok accountable for harming our youth.
01:25We will not stop until our young people are safe and healthy. We will always stand up for
01:31our young people and have the backs of our parents across the state and across this nation.