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Virginia’s Lawsuit Against TikTok Gets Green Light to Proceed in State Court
Oct 28 2025 // Virginia’s lawsuit against TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. will move forward in state court, despite TikTok’s efforts to have it dismissed. Richmond City Circuit Court Judge Richard B....
Italian Families Target Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Over Child Safety
Oct 8 2025 // A group of Italian families has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, accusing the platforms of failing to enforce age restrictions and using addictive features that harm children’s mental...
French Lawmaker Asks Prosecutor to Probe TikTok for ‘Endangering the Lives’ of Users
Sep 11 2025 // The chairman of a French parliamentary committee investigating TikTok’s psychological effects on minors said on Thursday that he had asked for a criminal probe into TikTok’s possible responsibility for...
Meta, TikTok Win Challenge Against EU Tech Fees, Forcing Regulators to Recalculate
Sep 10 2025 // Meta Platforms and TikTok on Wednesday won a legal challenge to the way EU regulators calculated a supervisory fee imposed on them under landmark tech rules, but will receive no money back while officials reformulate the...
Minnesota Sues TikTok Over Addictive Algorithms
Aug 21 2025 // Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with addictive algorithms that trap them into becoming compulsive consumers of its short videos. “This...
Meta, TikTok Can Be Sued by Mother of NYC Teen Killed While ‘Subway Surfing’
Jun 30 2025 // Meta Platforms and TikTok owner ByteDance must face a wrongful death lawsuit by the mother of a 15-year-old Manhattan boy who died while “subway surfing” on a moving train, a New York state judge ruled. Justice...
TikTok Fined €530 Million for Illegally Sending EU Data to China
May 5 2025 // TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. was fined €530 million ($600 million) by the European Union for illegally sending user data to China, and warned that it didn’t do enough to keep that information out of reach from...
Buffett Says Comments Attributed to Him on X, TikTok ‘All False’
Apr 8 2025 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday that all reports circulating on social media sites including X, TikTok and Facebook “regarding comments allegedly made” by Warren Buffett are false. While Berkshire...
French Families Sue TikTok Over Teen Suicides They Say Are Linked to Harmful Content
Jan 24 2025 // In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide. “I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a...
Texas AG Files Second Lawsuit Against TikTok Over Explicit Content
Jan 10 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday sued TikTok for the second time in recent months, accusing the social media company of violating deceptive trade law by downplaying its addictiveness and exposing children to...
Update: TikTok Sued by Families in France After Children’s Suicides
Nov 4 2024 // TikTok was sued by a group of seven French families who blame the social network app for harming the mental health of their children, driving two of them to suicide. The families, grouped in the association Algos Victima,...
13 States and DC Sue TikTok, Accusing Platform of Harming Younger Users
Oct 8 2024 // TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the popular social media platform of harming and failing to protect young people. The lawsuits filed separately in New...
Texas AG Sues TikTok For Violating State’s New Social Media Law
Oct 4 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued TikTok on Thursday for sharing and selling minors’ personal information, violating a new state law that seeks to protect children who are active on social media, accusations...
TikTok Must Face Lawsuit Over 10-Year-Old Girl’s Death, Appeals Court Rules
Aug 28 2024 // A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral “blackout challenge” in which users of the social media platform were dared to...
TikTok Sued by US for Allegedly Breaking Kids’ Privacy Law
Aug 5 2024 // TikTok was sued by the US for allegedly collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy act, three months after the popular video app sued the government over a law that could ban it across the country. In a...
New Hampshire Sues TikTok Alleging Consumer Protection Violations, Harm to Kids
Jun 27 2024 // New Hampshire is suing social media video service TikTok Inc. for allegedly violating the state’s consumer protection act, Attorney General John M. Formella announced. The state’s complaint against TikTok filed...
DOJ Drops Claims That TikTok Misled US Consumers in Lawsuit
Jun 24 2024 // The US Justice Department is dropping one of two proposed claims against ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok, planning to focus a consumer protection lawsuit later this year on children’s privacy instead of allegations the...
Hackers Targeted Celebrities on TikTok Using Private Messages
Jun 5 2024 // Hackers targeted well known brands and celebrities on TikTok, sending a malicious link through private messages to hijack prominent accounts. The ByteDance Ltd.-owned social media service said it’s taking steps to...
TikTok Lawsuit Sets Stage for Prolonged Legal Fight Over US Ban
May 8 2024 // China-based ByteDance Ltd. made clear it won’t comply with a new US law requiring it to sell its popular TikTok video-sharing app, setting up what likely will be a prolonged court battle pitting free-speech rights...
TikTok Faces Fine as EU Prepares Probe Over Risks to Minors
Feb 12 2024 // TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. faces the threat of hefty fines as the European Union prepares a probe under its strict new content moderation rules over concerns of risks to minors. The European Commission will open an...
