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US court: TikTok must face suit for child’s ‘blackout challenge’ death – Times of India

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PHILADELPHIA: A US appeals court revived on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who died attempting a viral challenge she allegedly saw on TikTok that dared people to choke themselves until they lost consciousness. While federal law generally protects online publishers from liability for content posted by others, the court said TikTok could potentially be found liable for promoting the content or using an algorithm to steer it to children.
“TikTok makes choices about the content recommended and promoted to specific users, and by doing so, is engaged in its own first-party speech,” Judge Patty Shwartz of the 3rd US Circuit Court in Philadelphia wrote in the opinion Tuesday.
Lawyers for the mother, Tawainna Anderson, had argued that the so-called “blackout challenge,” which was popular in 2021, appeared on Nylah Anderson’s “For You” feed after TikTok determined that she might watch it – even after other children had died trying it.
A district judge initially dismissed the lawsuit, citing Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, often used to protect internet firms from liability for things posted on their sites. “Big Tech just lost its ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’,” the mother’s lawyer, said.





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