{"id":6223,"date":"2022-07-06T05:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T03:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/families-sue-tiktok-after-girls-died-while-trying-blackout-challenge\/"},"modified":"2022-07-06T05:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T03:38:45","slug":"families-sue-tiktok-after-girls-died-while-trying-blackout-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/families-sue-tiktok-after-girls-died-while-trying-blackout-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Families sue TikTok after girls died while trying \u2018blackout challenge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents blame platform\u2019s algorithms for choking deaths of eight- and nine-year-old<\/p>\n<p>The families of two young girls who allegedly died as a result of a viral TikTok challenge have sued the social media platform, claiming its \u201cdangerous\u201d algorithms are to blame for their children\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of two girls who died in a 2021 \u201cblackout challenge\u201d on TikTok, which encouraged users to choke themselves until they passed out, filed a suit on Tuesday in the Los Angeles county superior court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/05\/tiktok-girls-dead-blackout-challenge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1440efea1cdabecf06b46bf688e77a2e473a1663\/0_200_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6abc74ab2a5bfec0a66606ed7593c214\" title=\"Families sue TikTok after girls died while trying \u2018blackout challenge\u2019\" \/>Parents blame platform\u2019s algorithms for choking deaths of eight- and nine-year-old<br \/>\nThe families of two young girls who allegedly died as a result of a viral TikTok challenge have sued the social media platform, claiming its \u201cdangerous\u201d algorithms are to blame for their children\u2019s deaths.<br \/>\nParents of two girls who died in a 2021 \u201cblackout challenge\u201d on TikTok, which encouraged users to choke themselves until they passed out, filed a suit on Tuesday in the Los Angeles county superior court. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents blame platform\u2019s algorithms for choking deaths of eight- and nine-year-old The families of two young girls who allegedly died as a result of a viral TikTok challenge have sued the social media platform, claiming its \u201cdangerous\u201d algorithms are to blame for their children\u2019s deaths. Parents of two girls who died in a 2021 \u201cblackout &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/families-sue-tiktok-after-girls-died-while-trying-blackout-challenge\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Families sue TikTok after girls died while trying \u2018blackout challenge\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6224,"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\/6223"}],"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=6223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}