British teenagers Archives - Afinju FM https://afinjufm.com/tag/british-teenagers/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:08:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://afinjufm.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-Afinju_Logo-removebg-preview-32x32.png British teenagers Archives - Afinju FM https://afinjufm.com/tag/british-teenagers/ 32 32 233669348 TikTok sued over deaths of 4 children after viral challenge https://afinjufm.com/tiktok-sued-over-deaths-of-4-children-after-viral-challenge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tiktok-sued-over-deaths-of-4-children-after-viral-challenge https://afinjufm.com/tiktok-sued-over-deaths-of-4-children-after-viral-challenge/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:08:53 +0000 https://afinjufm.com/?p=8701 Parents of four British teenagers who believe that their children died after participating in a viral challenge, that circulated on TikTok in 2022 have sued the video-sharing platform.

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]]> According to the parents, the children, Isaac Kenevan, Archie Battersbee, Julian Sweeney and Maia Walsh, died while attempting the trend called the “blackout challenge”.

The US-based Social Media Victims Law Center filed the lawsuit on Thursday against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance on behalf of the children’s parents.

Meanwhile, searches for videos or hashtags related to the challenge on TikTok have been blocked since 2020.

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TikTok has clarified that it prohibits dangerous content or challenges on the platform and directs those who search for hashtags or videos to its Safety Centre.

The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware on behalf of Isaac’s mum Lisa Kenevan; Archie’s mother Hollie Dance; Jools’ mother Ellen Roome; and Maia’s dad Liam Walsh.

It claims the deaths were the foreseeable result of ByteDance’s engineered addiction-by-design and programming decisions, which were aimed at pushing children into maximizing their engagement with TikTok by any means necessary.

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