More than a dozen states and DC file lawsuits against TikTok, claiming platform harms youth mental health

A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from over a dozen states and Washington, D.C., have filed lawsuits against the social media platform TikTok, alleging the short-form video app was designed to be addictive to kids and harms the mental health of young users. Reuters reported the lawsuits come more than two years after a national investigation into TikTok was launched by several attorneys general in March 2022, including from states like New York, California, the District of Columbia, and 11 other states. The focus of the separately filed lawsuits centers...