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Data of four dead British teens may have been removed, says TikTok
The parents of four British teenagers are suing the social media firm over the deaths of their children.
Giles Derrington, senior government relations manager at TikTok, told BBC Radio 5 Live: "We always want to do everything we can to give anyone answers on these kinds of issues but there are some things which we simply don't have." Speaking on Safer Internet Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about online harms, Mr Derrington said TikTok had been in contact with some of the parents, adding that they "have been through something unfathomably tragic". It claims their children died participating in a trend that circulated widely on TikTok in 2022, despite the site having rules around not showing or promoting dangerous content that could cause significant physical harm.
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