Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media company TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15.
The lawsuit alleges TikTok's algorithm exposed the seven teenagers to videos promoting suicide, self-harm and eating disorders.
The families are taking joint legal action in the Créteil judicial court. Lawyer Laure Boutron-Marmion said it was the first such grouped case in Europe.
TikTok, like other social media platforms, has long faced scrutiny over the policing of content on its app.
Just like Meta, with Facebook and Instagram, it faces hundreds of lawsuits in the United States accusing the companies of enticing and addicting millions of children to their platforms, damaging their mental health.
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