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Utah became the latest GOP-led state on Tuesday to sue social media giant TikTok amid a wave of criticism over its content moderation and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, claiming the platform “illegally baits children” into addictive and unsafe use, following similar suits in Arkansas and Indiana, as well as a controversial ban in Montana.
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In a joint statement released Tuesday, Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox and Attorney General Sean Reyes accused the social media platform of luring children into unhealthy use on the app, claiming the company “surreptitiously designed and deployed addictive features” to encourage young users to “endlessly” scroll, in an attempt to generate advertising revenue.
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