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Raleigh -- March 3, 2022:Attorney General Josh Stein today announced an investigation into TikTok,
the Chinese-owned social media platform that has been associated with possible physical and mental health harms.
"Young people's mental health is at risk when they are using TikTok," said Attorney General Stein. "This company needs to answer our questions, and parents need to be aware of these risks."
“I’m very concerned about the ways in which social media companies may be using their technology to hook our kids without regard for their emotional or mental health,”. “This investigation will shed more light on TikTok’s business practices and how they may harm our children. I will do everything in my power to keep North Carolina’s children safe, whether they’re at school, on the playground, or online.”
Attorney General Stein is leading a bipartisan group of attorneys general examining whether the company violated state consumer protection laws by putting young people at risk. The investigation will look into the harms such usage causes to young users and what TikTok knows about those harms. The investigation focuses, among other things, on the techniques that TikTok uses to boost young user engagement, including the amount of time and frequency spent on the platform.
Stein is part of an executive committee of states investigating Meta, formerly known as Facebook, for providing and promoting Instagram to kids. He was part of a bipartisan coalition of 44 attorneys general that urged Facebook to abandon its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13.
Wnctimes by Marjorie Farrington
