{"id":17653,"date":"2025-02-07T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/parents-sue-tiktok-over-child-deaths-allegedly-caused-by-blackout-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:37:20","slug":"parents-sue-tiktok-over-child-deaths-allegedly-caused-by-blackout-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/parents-sue-tiktok-over-child-deaths-allegedly-caused-by-blackout-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by \u2018blackout challenge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents claim four children died as a result of attempting challenge that went viral in 2021<\/p>\n<p>The parents of four British teenagers have sued TikTok over the deaths of their children, which they claim were the result of the viral \u201cblackout challenge\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claims Isaac Kenevan, 13, Archie Battersbee, 12, Julian \u201cJools\u201d Sweeney, 14, and Maia Walsh, 13, died in 2022 while attempting the \u201cblackout challenge\u201d, which became popular on social media in 2021.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/07\/tiktok-sued-over-deaths-of-children-said-to-have-attempted-blackout-challenge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4e13ffda77e4d9fdd75223e61b474a9355b3c9bc\/0_85_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3b03fe9e14adfe47f688429ba5c849dd\" title=\"Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by \u2018blackout challenge\u2019\" \/>Parents claim four children died as a result of attempting challenge that went viral in 2021<br \/>\nThe parents of four British teenagers have sued TikTok over the deaths of their children, which they claim were the result of the viral \u201cblackout challenge\u201d.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit claims Isaac Kenevan, 13, Archie Battersbee, 12, Julian \u201cJools\u201d Sweeney, 14, and Maia Walsh, 13, died in 2022 while attempting the \u201cblackout challenge\u201d, which became popular on social media in 2021. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents claim four children died as a result of attempting challenge that went viral in 2021 The parents of four British teenagers have sued TikTok over the deaths of their children, which they claim were the result of the viral \u201cblackout challenge\u201d. The lawsuit claims Isaac Kenevan, 13, Archie Battersbee, 12, Julian \u201cJools\u201d Sweeney, 14, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/parents-sue-tiktok-over-child-deaths-allegedly-caused-by-blackout-challenge\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by \u2018blackout challenge\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}