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Indiana’s attorney general on Wednesday filed two lawsuits against TikTok accusing the company of exposing minors to inappropriate adult content and deceiving users about China’s ability to access their data.
“The TikTok app is a malicious and menacing threat unleashed on unsuspecting Indiana consumers by a Chinese company that knows full well the harms it inflicts on users,” Attorney General Todd Rokita said. “With this pair of lawsuits, we hope to force TikTok to stop its false, deceptive and misleading practices, which violate Indiana law.”
The first lawsuit alleges that TikTok is a “Chinese Trojan Horse” that lures young people onto its platform by making false claims about age-appropriate content, but then pushes “salacious and inappropriate content to all young U.S. users 13 and up for unlimited periods of time, day and night, in an effort to line TikTok’s pockets with billions of dollars from U.S. consumers.”
The second suit alleges that TikTok failed to disclose to consumers the Chinese government’s ability to access the sensitive and personal data collected on the app, which China can use to “spy on, blackmail, and coerce users” for its national security interests.
