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Utah Sues TikTok, Alleging TikTok Live Is ‘A Virtual Strip Club’ For Minors
Utah’s governor and attorney general announced a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging youth are pushed to perform sexually suggestive acts for gifts and money on TikTok Live.
But on many of the hundreds of TikTok livestreams reviewed by Forbes, the gifts appeared to be sent by adults to minors, which legal and law enforcement experts said can enable predators to groom targets for online or offline sexual abuse and sextortion. (For example: Utah said TikTok’s claims about its policies and measures aimed at protecting teens, including revoking access to features for users found to be underage, are false, but the complaint redacted internal information explaining why. In October 2023, Utah sued the company over its addictive algorithm and other features aimed at maximizing the time young users spend in the app; TikTok filed a motion to dismiss and is awaiting a ruling.
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