Arkansas sues TikTok, Meta for 'pushing addictive platforms'

Arkansas filed a lawsuit against Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta, and two lawsuits against TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance over concerns about how the platforms are affecting children.
 

"We have to hold Big Tech companies accountable for pushing addictive platforms on our kids and exposing them to a world of inappropriate, damaging content," Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday when announcing the lawsuits.

Republican Attorney General Tim Griffin said all three lawsuits have the common theme of "deception." 

The lawsuit against Meta focuses on how the social media giant uses "algorithms that are addictive to adolescents and are rewiring how our children think, feel and behave" while hiding "the nature of their products in pursuit of profits and growth," Griffin said. 

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