TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'blackout challenge'

Re:TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'b... by 0dayz on Monday July 04, 2022 @05:50AM (#31975295)

Well, the issue here is that you are comparing apple to oranges.

If we were to compare tiktok to something it would be like the internet, Facebook or YouTube not toys.

If it's the blackout challenge it would be:

Eat a California reaper challenge, cinammon challenge, how to make crystals nor toys.

Now I think we can see that things aren't going to be retroactively so rosy.

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Re:TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'b... by hypertele-Xii on Monday July 04, 2022 @06:37AM (#31975581)

"but this time it's different!"

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Re:TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'b... by lulzury on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:17AM (#31977947)

You might be interested in taking a look at "Adolescent mood disorders since 2010: A collaborative review" [0] by Jonathan Haidt and Jean Twenge which goes into detailed studies and datasets showing a rise in recent years in teen suicide, as well as the associations between heavy social media use and bad mental health outcomes, particularly for girls [1].

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1diMvsMeRphUH7E6D1d_J7R6W...

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...

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Re:TikTok is sued over deaths of two young girls in viral 'b... by blub on Monday July 04, 2022 @08:53AM (#31976502)

That’s a heuristic which like all heuristics will fail to work in some cases.

This is one of them - we’ve never had private hostile organizations with immense budgets trying to manipulate and help themselves to the private information of regular people at global scale before.

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