A group of state attorneys general will investigate TikTok's connection with negative mental and physical health outcomes among children and teens.
This investigation will look at how TikTok can harm young users, and whether or not TikTok knew about those harms in advance. TikTok's methods of boosting young user engagement and how it encourages users to spend more time on the platform will be looked into by a bipartisan group of attorneys general. Attorneys will use this research to determine if TikTok violated state consumer protection laws.
As children and teens grapple with issues of anxiety, social pressure, and depression, we cannot allow social media to further harm their physical health and mental wellbeing.
These actions aren't uncommon, but they don't usually yield much change in big tech. Last year, a similar coalition of 44 attorneys, also co-led by Attorney General Healey, succeeded in urging Meta to pause its plans to build Instagram Kids.
The influence of social media on children's mental health is on the minds of government officials. President Joe Biden talked about social media in his speech.
The president said that social media platforms must be held accountable for the national experiment they are conducting on our children.
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