A lawsuit was filed against Tiktok by the religion of four British teenagers believed to have died after participating in the viral trends that were circulated on the video sharing platform in 2022.
The lawsuit claims that Isaac Kenfan, Archchi Batbi and Julian “Guls” Sweeny and Mia Walsh died while trying to “the challenge of obfuscation”.
The United States -based social media victims center filed an illegal death lawsuit against Tijook and its mother company, on behalf of the children’s parents on Thursday.
The BBC has asked Tiktok to comment.
The complaint was filed in the Supreme Court in Dilayer, on behalf of the mother of Holly Dance, Umm Ishaq Lisa Kenfan, Julus Ellen Room, Wad Maya, Liam Walsh’s father.
She claims that the deaths were “the expected result of addiction, the engineer with a design and programming by Betantian, which was” aimed at pushing children to maximize their association with Tijok by any necessary means. “
He is accused of “creating harmful dependencies in every child” by designing and “immersing them with an endless stream of damage.”
“These damages that children have seen or wanted to see when they started using Tactok,” she claimed.
The lawsuit comes to families as question marks hanging on the future of Tiktok in the United States.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to extend the deadline for submitting the application in the country unless it is sold to another company.
In January 2024, the Criminal Investigation Judge concluded that the Holly Dancing son died at the age of 12. After a “joke or experience” was mistaken at their home in Southind On C in April 2022.
MS Dance, along with Lisa Kenfan, a 13 -year -old mother, tried to raise awareness level About the possible social media trends in the wake of the death of their children.
Ellen Rom, who believes her 14 -year -old son Gouls, died after participating in an online challenge, sought to obtain data from Tiktok, which could provide clarity about his death.
It was a campaign for the “Guls Law”, This will allow parents to reach social media accounts for their children if they die.
“It is my only goal to try to make something positive from the loss of the assembly, not just me but for the families who have already lost children and families,” she told the BBC in January.
