'We have to hold Big Tech companies accountable for pushing addictive platforms on our kids,' Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
"These actions are a long time coming. We have watched over the past decade as one social media company after another has exploited our kids for profit and escaped government oversight. My administration will not tolerate that failed status quo," she added.
Attorney General Tim Griffin said in a statement he filed the lawsuits to "hold Meta accountable for targeting our youth and deceiving the public about it." He alleged that "TikTok is deceiving the public regarding the harmful content it is putting in the hands of our kids, and it is deceiving the public about its ties to the Chinese Communist Party."Antigone Davis, Meta's head of safety, said in a statement that the company had acted to safeguard teens by introducing
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