A 10-year-old Pennsylvania woman died reportedly trying a popular issue on TikTok, which the mother of a US appeals judge revived on Tuesday. Although federal law typically exempts website publishers from any liability for articles posted by others, the court ruled that TikTok could be held legally responsible for using an engine to promote the content to children.
TikTok chooses the material that is recommended and promoted to certain people, according to Judge Patty Shwartz of the 3rd US Circuit Court in Philadelphia in the mind released on Tuesday.
Lawyers for the family, Tawainna Anderson, had argued that the so-called “blackout challenge”, which was common in 2021, appeared on Nylah Anderson’s” For You” feed after TikTok determined that she might see it- yet after another children had died trying it.
Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which frequently shields online companies from responsibility for items posted on their websites, was originally used by a district judge to dismiss the complaint. ” Big Tech simply lost its ‘ get-out-of-jail-free card'”, the family’s lawyer, said.
