Parents blame platform’s algorithms for choking deaths of eight- and nine-year-old
The parents of Lalani Erika Renee Walton and Arriani Jaileen Arroyo say TikTok’s ‘dangerous algorithm intentionally and repeatedly’ pushed videos to the children.The parents of Lalani Erika Renee Walton and Arriani Jaileen Arroyo say TikTok’s ‘dangerous algorithm intentionally and repeatedly’ pushed videos to the children.
and abuse, they allege the platform’s “dangerous algorithm intentionally and repeatedly” pushed videos of the challenge into the children’s feeds, incentivizing them to participate in the challenge that ultimately took their lives.Matthew P Bergman In July 2021, her family began noticing bruising on Lalani’s neck, which she explained away as an accident. Unbeknownst to them, she had begun participating in the blackout challenge, which had first showed up on her feed weeks before.
The other victim named in the suit, nine-year-old Arriani Jaileen Arroyo of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received a phone when she was seven years old and used TikTok multiple times a day, according to the complaint. She “gradually became obsessive” about posting dance videos on TikTok and became “addicted” to the app.
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