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Court: Section 230 doesn’t shield TikTok from Blackout Challenge death suit — TikTok must face claim over For You Page recommending content that killed kids.

TikTok must face claim over For You Page recommending content that killed kids.

Several kids died taking part in the “Blackout Challenge," which Third Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz described in her opinion as encouraging users "to choke themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing out." He encouraged a "far narrower" interpretation of Section 230 to stop companies like TikTok from reading the Communications Decency Act as permitting "casual indifference to the death of a 10-year-old girl." Anderson’s lawyers at Jeffrey Goodman, Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC previously provided Ars with a statement after the prior court's ruling, indicating that parents weren't prepared to stop fighting in 2022.

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