Utah claims in its lawsuit that TikTok deceives parents and addicts children with its algorithms and that it obscures that it’s controlled from China by ByteDance.
Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection is suing TikTok over allegations that the app’s “addictive nature” harms children and that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance, its parent company in China. The state’s lawsuit is the latest in a long-and-growing string of bans and legal action from US-based governments and organizations to rein in TikTok’s popularity, generally on espionage fears.
The lawsuit alleges that TikTok violates the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act by making the app addictive to children and profiting from it; misrepresenting things like the safety of its app and fairness of its policies; and claiming that it’s based in the US and not controlled from China by ByteDance. TikTok is facing similar challenges across the US. Indiana made similar allegations to Utah’s in its own lawsuit against TikTok last year.
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