The state of Hawaii filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, of intentionally designing the platform to addict children, surveil them and expose them to dangerous content while misleading families about the risks.
Attorney General Anne Lopez, through local attorney Douglas Chin, filed the complaint in Oahu First Circuit Court. The state accuses TikTok of deliberately using “coercive design tactics” that exploit children’s developing brains to make the platform as addictive as possible, even as the company publicly claimed that safety was its top priority.
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