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At least seven kids, under age 15, have lost their lives owing to the infamous 'blackout challenge' on Chinese short-video making app <keyword id="6762469" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="tiktok" source="Orion">TikTok</keyword> that encourages users to "choke themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing out." TikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who alleged their kids died of strangulation attempting the "blackout challenge", The <keyword id="6765301" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="verge" source="Orion">Verge</keyword> reported on Thursday. The most recent lawsuit was filed by the parents of eight-year-old <keyword id="14398331" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="lalani-walton" source="Orion">Lalani Walton</keyword> and nine-year-old <keyword id="14398332" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="arriani-arroyo" source="Orion">Arriani Arroyo</keyword>. A 10-year-old in Italy died in January 2021; a 12-year-old in Colorado in the US died in March 2021; a 14-year-old in Australia who died in June 2021; a 12-year-old in Oklahoma who died in July 2021 and another 10-year-old in Pennsylvania who reportedly died in December 2021, according to multiple reports. <keyword id="14398330" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="tawainna-anderson" source="Orion">Tawainna Anderson</keyword>, the mother of the 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl <keyword id="14398329" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="nylah-anderson" source="Orion">Nylah Anderson</keyword>, is also suing TikTok, alleging that the app "pushed exceedingly and unacceptably dangerous challenges." Some lawsuits alleged that kids weren't searching for challenges when they saw the videos. Instead "TikTok put it right in front of them on the app's main screen, the For You page". A TikTok spokesperson said that this disturbing "challenge", which people seem to learn about from sources other than TikTok, long predates our platform and has never been a TikTok trend. "We remain vigilant in our commitment to user safety and would immediately remove related content if found. Our deepest sympathies go out to the family for their tragic loss," the company spokesperson said.

TikTok's 'blackout challenge' faces backlash after allegedly killing 7 kids

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 10-year-old's death was blamed on a "blackout challenge" seen on TikTok.</li><li>In a recent ruling, the Third Circuit court determined TikTok could be held liable for her death.</li></ul>A 10-year-old child's tragic death, after her parents alleged in a lawsuit that she participated in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mother-warns-about-blackout-challenge-after-daughter-death-2021-12">"blackout challenge"</a> served to her on her TikTok "For You Page," could change the internet as we know it.In a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25107000-third-circuit-section-230-tiktok-decision">decision</a> on August 27, the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that, in 2021, TikTok — via its <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-tiktok-algorithm-for-you-page-works-watch-time-report-2021-7">"For You Page" algorithm</a> — recommended a video promoting a "blackout challenge" to 10-year-old Nylah Anderson."Nylah, still in the first year of her adolescence, likely had no idea what she was doing or that following along with the images on her screen would kill her," Third Circut Judge Paul Matey wrote in his concurring opinion. "But TikTok knew that Nylah would watch because the company's customized algorithm placed the videos on her 'For You Page.'"The challenge encouraged viewers to choke themselves until they passed out. In a 2022 suit filed against TikTok, attorneys for her parents said Nylah tragically died when she attempted to replicate what she saw. The case was initially dismissed by a district judge due to Section 230. The Third Circuit, however, found that TikTok's algorithm, which tailors content recommendations to specific users based on the posts they interact with, is a form of speech — one that isn't protected by Section 230.The company had argued in court that it was immune from prosecution due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-section-230-internet-law-communications-decency-act-explained-2020-5">Section 230</a> of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, often called the law that created the internet, shields online platforms like TikTok, Meta, X, and others from being held liable for content posted by users of their sites.That means, for example, if a user posted a video encouraging viewers to hurt themselves, the platform they posted the clip to couldn't be held liable if a susceptible viewer followed that suggestion. But the Third Circuit ruling could change that.<h2 id="86fdd06d-047e-47e7-85f5-00a1081ed168">Proponents of the ruling say it's about time</h2>"Imagine that a person walked up to Nylah at school and suggested that she asphyxiate herself. We'd immediately recognize the person's culpability," David French, a columnist and former attorney, wrote in a recent opinion piece for <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://archive.ph/NRPwy#selection-4807.0-4810.0">The New York Times</a>. "Arguably, the algorithmic suggestion is even more powerful than an in-person suggestion."French and other supporters of the Third Circuit ruling argue that TikTok's liability protections should end where its algorithmic suggestions begin.Neutrally hosting a wide array of content on an online platform is fine, French and other proponents say, but promoting specific content — especially content the site administrators know could be harmful — is where a new line needs to be drawn, and the platforms themselves need to be held legally accountable, as the Third Circuit ruled.<h2 id="108dc6d1-8678-4113-ad8d-8ff0ed1ea524">Section 230 defenders argue the ruling is a blow to free speech</h2>Opponents of the ruling argue that critics of Section 230 are using Anderson's tragic death and the reasonable desire to protect children online as a way to erode speech rights."It's a myth — these laws that claim to protect children," Betsy Rosenblatt, the associate director of Case Western University's Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology &amp; the Arts, told Business Insider. "They all wear the costume of child protection, but they are not child protection underneath that — they are attempts to silence speech."Rosenblatt said the Third Circuit's decision doesn't make logical or legal sense. It's morally reprehensible to suggest in a video a child choke themselves for engagement online — but it isn't illegal, and it shouldn't be illegal for the host of the video to show it on your "For You Page.""The more you require platforms to filter speech, the more platforms will have to delete first and ask questions later," Rosenblatt told BI. "And that means that things that are controversial, the moment they face any challenge, will get taken down, even if they should stay up."<h2 id="b73b0075-18f8-4e9c-97a8-c7768718b5be">What's next?</h2>The Third Circuit's decision can be appealed by <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ban-tiktok-movement-is-losing-momentum-among-americans-2024-9">TikTok</a>. If the company appeals, the case will then end up on the Supreme Court's desk, where the high court justices could choose to take up the case or let the Third Circuit ruling stand — which would force platforms like TikTok to reconsider <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-tiktok-is-changing-music-industry">how their algorithms function</a> to avoid liability in cases like Anderson's.Though the high court has so far shied away from defining the scope of Section 230, its conservative justices have previously signaled they're open to reconsidering the statute. If they do, their ruling could have even broader consequences than the Third Circuit ruling.Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented in July from the court's refusal to hear a case that would have revisited Section 230. The case stemmed from allegations that the Snapchat app has a design flaw that aids sexual predators, but lower courts found that the app's parent company was shielded by 230.And in a decision last term, SCOTUS also left a loophole open to holding platforms liable based on which country their headquarters are in. In Moody v. NetChoice, which determined a platform's algorithmic activity is a form of "expressive activity" and should be regulated like speech is, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote that a foreign-owned social-media platform — like TikTok — may not have the same First Amendment protections that a US corporation does.Rosenblatt said that if SCOTUS agrees to hear the case, the high court could agree with the Third Circuit that TikTok's algorithmic recommendations are a version of the site's speech. If they do, the question would then become whether the recommendation itself was negligent, which could carry legal consequences."That would still be terrible for business on the internet, but it wouldn't kill all websites," Rosenblatt said of upholding a more narrow reading of the Third Circuit ruling. But the potential for a broader reading, which could determine that any form of content moderation equals a conversion of user speech into a platform's speech, would "have devastating effects on the internet ecosystem and tech more generally."

The Supreme Court may have a shot to strike down Section 230 after a child's death was blamed on a 'blackout challenge' seen on TikTok

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Celebrities rarely sue when their AI-generated images are used in scam online advertisements.</li><li>Mike <keyword id="23762289" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="huckabee" source="keywords">Huckabee</keyword>'s lawsuit over his bogus CBD gummies ads on Facebook is an exception.</li></ul>When celebrities get deep-faked, they don't tend to run off to the nearest courthouse to sue Facebook or YouTube. Oprah Winfrey did not file a lawsuit earlier this year after her AI doppelganger hawked a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67703018">$37 self-help course</a> based on "missing" Bible scriptures. Neither did <keyword id="19897184" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="taylor-swift" source="keywords">Taylor Swift</keyword> after her recent deepfake "endorsement" of Donald Trump. When dueling deepfakes of <keyword id="19928904" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tom-hanks" source="keywords">Tom Hanks</keyword> shilled for a dental plan last October and a miracle cure in August, the real Tom Hanks sued no one. Likewise, Jennifer Aniston, whose AI double recently told Facebook users that she owes her timeless bikini body to collagen supplements, did not run to the courthouse. Amid this litigation restraint, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee stands apart. He, too, has been targeted. In May, Huckabee, a Baptist minister and staunch conservative, discovered his manipulated image had been used for months in Facebook ads for CBD gummies. "CBD cured me and can save American lives," the ads quote the two-time GOP presidential candidate as saying. "It was quite the shock," Huckabee told Business Insider Wednesday. "I was just outraged." Huckabee may now be the only deepfaked American public figure who is taking his outrage to court. His lawsuit against <keyword id="19911549" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="meta" source="keywords">Meta</keyword>, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, demands unspecified damages "for its malicious conduct." "Meta profited from these unlawful advertisements, and because of Meta's approval, these advertisements reached millions of Facebook users," the lawsuit alleges. An attorney and spokesperson for Meta did not return requests for comment for this story. The company is fighting to dismiss the lawsuit, an effort centered on Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act. Since 1996, Section 230 has generally immunized publishers of third-party content from lawsuits. Experts in digital law told Business Insider that Section 230 protections make it virtually impossible to successfully sue a social media platform over deepfake scam ads. So while public figures get deepfaked all the time, Huckabee v Meta, filed in federal court in Delaware, is unsurprisingly a rare effort, they said. "He's going straight into the teeth of an impressive record of courtroom futility," said Eric Goldman, a professor of digital law at Santa Clara University. Huckabee said he remains determined. "There are so many people who have been defrauded in this way, and either they don't have the energy to pursue it, or they think it's an effort in futility, which I disagree with," he said. "Quite frankly, it's kind of a Wild, Wild West approach that they've taken, that they can do whatever they want to do, and no one can touch them," he added, referring to Meta. "I think it's time to touch them." <div type="image" title="Attorney Scott Poynter, left, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee after taping the October 12 episode of the Trinity Broadcasting Network talk show, &quot;Huckabee.&quot;" height="3712" width="5568" msid="114654293" hostid="261"></div><h2>Facebook is "an advertising company"</h2>Huckabee's lawyer, Scott Poynter, said he knows of one lawsuit that's similar to the former governor's, and he said its progress has given him hope. Three years ago, in federal court in California, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-crack-down-scam-accounts-banks-sharing-data-2024-10">Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest</a> filed a lawsuit making a similar claim. The billionaire alleged that Meta was negligent in posting deepfake cryptocurrency scam ads using his image. The ads remained up on Facebook and Instagram despite Forrest's repeated demands they be taken down, and defrauded victims out of millions of dollars, his suit alleges. In June, US District Court Judge P. Casey Pitts rejected Meta's argument that the case should be dismissed pretrial on Section 230 grounds. The decision means Forrest may proceed to trial on this claim: that Meta was more than just a neutral conveyor of content and, therefore, has no immunity from a negligence claim. That's Huckabee's argument in a nutshell, Poynter said. "Facebook is an advertising company," he told BI. "Almost 98% of Meta's $134 billion in revenue last year came from the sale of advertisements. Its algorithm decides how many of these ads will be sent out, and who will see them." "We argue that Meta is no longer a third-party content provider protected by 230 immunity when it manipulates and pushes an ad, through its algorithm, to the people who are most likely to buy." Goldman, the digital law professor, thinks the Forrest decision may be "an anomaly." "If I were Facebook, I would appeal," he said. Still, there are warning signs that 230 immunity is in legal jeopardy, he said. He pointed to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackout-challenge-tiktok-death-could-end-section-230-liability-protections-2024-9">Anderson v. TikTok</a>, a lawsuit on behalf of a 10-year-old girl, Nylah Anderson, who died trying the "Blackout Challenge" promoted on her TikTok feed. In August, a federal appeals court in Pennsylvania found that because its algorithm fed these videos to the girl, TikTok served as more than just a neutral repository of third-party content. The court rejected TikTok's 230 challenge, allowing the case to go forward. "They found that algorithms are content, protected by the First Amendment, so they're not covered by 230 immunity," Goldman said. "It's obviously wrong, and it will be appealed, maybe to the US Supreme Court," he added. "And if it works, it's the end of 230 protection" for social media platforms. <div type="image" title="A false Facebook ad, since taken down, in which former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee &quot;endorses&quot; CBD gummies." height="538" width="1028" msid="114654296" hostid="261"></div><h2>'What the heck is going on?'</h2>Mike Huckabee can't remember the precise moment in May when he realized his doppelganger was selling CBD gummies. He just remembers he was "livid." "I was getting a number of friends who were sending it to me," he remembered. "And they were saying 'What the heck is going on?'" The ads used photos of the former governor, including from his nationally syndicated talk and variety show, "Huckabee," which runs weekly on Trinity Broadcasting Network. Other photos were clearly AI-manipulated, his lawsuit says. "There is no real photo of me like it. It looks like I'm crying," Huckabee told BI. "I'm in a bright red paisley shirt, and it looks like I'm at the end of my rope." At least one of the ads took the form of a Fox News story, the lawsuit alleges. All of the ads falsely said Huckabee was leaving Trinity Broadcasting because he had nearly died after a four-year battle against an auto-immune disease — but that the "miracle" of Fortin-brand CBD gummies had saved his life. The ads also falsely claimed that because he'd switched to gummies, he no longer needed to take opioid painkillers. Fortin is still selling CBD gummies online without the help of a bogus Huckabee endorsement. The company is not named as a defendant in Huckabee's lawsuit, and a representative did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Huckabee said he was soon inundated with calls from friends, fans, people from the network, and sponsors from the show, all wondering if he was really sick, really quitting, and really popping CBD gummies. "Governor Huckabee does not endorse CBD gummies or any marijuana derivative," Poynter told BI. "For decades, Governor Huckabee has been against marijuana and its derivatives." The former governor said he has more than 2 million followers on Facebook and has had beef with Meta before, including when it temporarily froze his account after he criticized the government's COVID response. "Everybody I know has been Facebook jail," he said. "If they're monitoring the content of people who don't have that much content, why can't they see these ads?" Huckabee said he is no fan of Section 230 immunity. The law was enacted to encourage the growth of the internet and protect free speech, but "I don't think we have to worry about that now," he said. "We have to worry about how the internet has become a monster and it's gobbling up people's lives," he added. As for his lawsuit, "We're going to take it as far as we can take it," Huckabee said. Meta is due to file additional papers supporting its motion to dismiss the Huckabee lawsuit on Monday. In the Forrest case, the company continues to argue that it has meaningful safeguards in place to combat scam advertisements. Correction: October 28, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misspelled Taylor Swift’s name.

Mike Huckabee is the unlikely avenger of deep-faked celebrities

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A mother says her daughter died after trying out a choking challenge on <keyword id="11894125" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tiktok" source="Orion">TikTok</keyword>.</li><li>She's suing TikTok and parent ByteDance for recommending her daughter the challenge.</li></ul>A Pennsylvania mother is suing TikTok and its parent company ByteDance for allegedly recommending a choking challenge to her daughter. The 10-year-old girl died after taking part in the deadly dare.Tawainna Anderson said her daughter, Nylah Anderson, participated in a "<keyword id="12801980" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="blackout-challenge" source="Orion">blackout challenge</keyword>" after it appeared on Nylah's "For You" recommendation page last December, according to a <a href="https://www.smbb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Timestamped-Complaint-1.pdf">complaint</a> filed on Thursday.The "blackout challenge" dares participants to choke themselves with household items until they black out. They then regain consciousness and share a recording of the process with other TikTok users.According to the complaint, Anderson found Nylah motionless in her bedroom on December 7 and rushed her to the hospital. The girl died five days later.TikTok's "algorithm determined that the deadly Blackout Challenge was well-tailored and likely to be of interest" to Nylah, said the court document. That caused her death, per the document, which also named ByteDance as a defendant.According to the suit, the challenge resulted in at least four other deaths, but TikTok didn't correct its algorithm to prevent users from being exposed to it."The TikTok Defendants failed to take the necessary corrective action because it would result in less user engagement on the app and thus less corporate profits," per the complaint.After Anderson first spoke to the media about her daughter's death, a TikTok spokesperson told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/22/parents-blame-tiktok-challenge-for-death-of-daughter-10/">New York Post</a> in December: "This disturbing 'challenge,' which people seem to learn about from sources other than TikTok, long predates our platform and has never been a TikTok trend."The blackout challenge exists on other social media apps too, but a forensic analysis of Nylah's mobile phone showed that she was using TikTok for the challenge, an attorney for Anderson <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-12/tiktok-sued-after-10-year-old-dies-in-viral-blackout-challenge">told</a> Bloomberg.A TikTok spokesperson told Insider that the company is not commenting on the lawsuit. A search for the hashtag "#blackoutchallenge" on TikTok by Insider showed no results on Friday.Dangerous challenges have plagued most of the major social media platforms. Last year, TikTok users filmed themselves engaging in a dangerous <a href="https://www.insider.com/milk-crate-challenge-tiktok-injuries-dangerous-doctor-2021-8">milk crate</a> challenge, in which people would climb unsecured milk crates stacked in a pyramid. And in 2019, YouTubers shared videos of them completing common tasks <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-updated-its-guidelines-to-ban-dangerous-pranks-and-challenges-2019-1">blindfolded</a>, including driving. There was also the infamous 2017 "Tide Pod" challenge where young people challenged each other to eat laundry detergent capsules and post their reactions on social media. Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram later <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tide-pod-challenge-youtube-taking-down-videos-2018-1">removed</a> the videos.

A mother is suing TikTok because she says her daughter died from a choking challenge that was allegedly recommended by its algorithm

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 10-year-old girl died after reportedly taking part in the purported "<keyword id="12801980" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="blackout-challenge" source="Orion">blackout challenge</keyword>."</li><li>Tawainna Anderson said her daughter Nylah held her breath until she passed out.</li></ul>A family is warning against the "blackout challenge" after a 10-year-old girl suffocated on December 12.Tawainna Anderson said her daughter Nylah held her breath until she passed out as part of the challenge she saw on <keyword id="11895013" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="social-media" source="Orion">social media</keyword>, <a href="https://abc7.com/social-media-trend-blackout-challenge-pennsylvania/11367940/">ABC 7 reported</a>.While <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyla-anderson-10-years-old-dies-after-doing-tiktok-blackout-challenge-in-her-bedroom">some</a> <a href="https://www.okayplayer.com/news/tiktok-blackout-challenge-death.html">outlets</a> have reported that the "blackout challenge" was a TikTok trend, Insider was unable to find any evidence suggesting that Nylah found out about the purported challenge from a TikTok video. Searching for the term "blackout challenge" on TikTok still yields no results, and instead links to a page on learning "how to recognize harmful challenges and hoaxes."As Insider has previously reported, asphyxiation challenges have <a href="https://www.insider.com/blackout-challenge-history-explained-oklahoma-child-dead-tiktok-trend-police-2021-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">circulated on the internet for years</a>. The intention behind children holding their breath <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-italy-orders-age-block-girl-dies-trying-viral-challenge-2021-1">is to achieve a "high" from passing out for a few seconds</a>.Games involving choking date back to as early as 1995, according to a 2008 report from the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5706a1.htm">US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC). "She was a butterfly," Anderson reportedly told the outlet. "She was everything. She was a happy child."Elizabeth Wood, a licensed clinical social worker who worked at a hospital local to Anderson, told the outlet that Nylah was in her bedroom and her family was at home when she died."But no one was in the bedroom with her when this happened, so there was no one there to save her," Wood reportedly said.Another 10-year-old girl died while also taking part in the challenge in Italy in January. And in July, police attributed the <keyword id="6355784" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="death" source="Orion">death</keyword> of a child in Bethany, Oklahoma, to the same trend. TikTok told Insider in a statement at the time that the platform blocks "related hashtags and searches to discourage people from participating in or sharing potentially dangerous content," and they couldn't find "evidence" that the trend existed on the app.<a href="https://www.insider.com/slap-a-teacher-challenge-stop-blaming-tiktok-teens2021-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insider again reported in November</a> that there was little evidence to connect asphyxiation challenges directly with TikTok, and such dangerous or destructive fads were likely to circulate online without gaining popularity on specific platforms."You never know what you might find on their phones," Anderson said, according to ABC 7. "You wouldn't think 10-year-olds would try this. They're trying because they're kids and they don't know better."Insider has reached out to the platform for up-to-date information on claims related to the blackout challenge.

A 10-year-old girl died after reportedly trying the 'blackout challenge' she learned from social media, mother says

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11894125" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tiktok" source="Orion">TikTok</keyword> is being sued for <keyword id="14356109" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wrongful-death" source="Orion">wrongful death</keyword> after two girls died trying to recreate a <keyword id="13637773" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="choking" source="Orion">choking</keyword> challenge.</li><li>The <keyword id="11921506" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lawsuit" source="Orion">lawsuit</keyword> alleges the girls aged 8 and 9 were fed videos of the challenge by the app's algorithm.</li></ul>TikTok is being sued after two young girls died while trying to recreate a viral trend on the app called the "<keyword id="12801980" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="blackout-challenge" source="Orion">blackout challenge</keyword>."The lawsuits allege that Lalani Erika Walton, 8, and Arriani Jaileen Arroyo, 9, died after copying the trend in which participants try to choke themselves into unconsciousness, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-07-01/tiktok-sued-over-death-of-two-young-girls-in-viral-blackout-challenge">the Los Angeles Times</a> reported.The wrongful death lawsuits were filed on Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.The suit alleges that the app's algorithm recommended videos of the strangulation challenge to the young girls.Walton, from Texas, was found "hanging from her bed with a rope around her neck" in her bedroom.The police took Walton's phone and tablet, and later told her stepmother that she had been watching blackout challenge videos "on repeat," the suit says, according to the newspaper.Arroyo, from Milwaukee, was found "hanging from the family dog's leash" in her basement, according to the suit.She was taken to hospital and put on a ventilator, but had lost all brain function and was eventually taken off life support, according to the lawsuit, the LA Times reported.They are not the first children to die while allegedly trying to participate in the challenge. Nylah Anderson, 10, similarly died while trying to copy the choking challenge, leading to her mother<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-sued-by-mother-of-girl-died-in-choking-challenge-2022-5?r=US&amp;IR=T"> filing a lawsuit </a>against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance in May. The challenge has been linked to at least four other deaths of children ranging from 10 to 14 in <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15293638/mums-warning-happy-son-chokes-death-tiktok-blackout-challenge/">Australia</a>, <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2021/01/22/italy-orders-tiktok-to-block-underage-users-after-10-year-old-girl-dies-doing-viral-challe#:~:text=Italy-,Italy%20orders%20TikTok%20to%20block%20underage%20users%20after%2010%2Dyear,girl%20dies%20filming%20viral%20challenge&amp;text=Italy's%20data%20protection%20watchdog%20has,whose%20age%20cannot%20be%20confirmed.">Italy</a>, <a href="https://www.today.com/parents/boy-dies-after-trying-tiktok-blackout-challenge-t215253">Colorado</a> and <a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/22/oklahoma-12-year-old-tiktok-blackout-challenge-social-media/8065926002/">Oklahoma</a>."TikTok unquestionably knew that the deadly Blackout Challenge was spreading through their app and that their algorithm was specifically feeding the Blackout Challenge to children," the Social Media Victims Law Center's complaint claims, per the Los Angeles Times.The complaint adds that the company "knew or should have known that failing to take immediate and significant action to extinguish the spread of the deadly Blackout Challenge would result in more injuries and deaths, especially among children."A TikTok spokesperson told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/17/tiktok-blackout-challenge-lawsuit/">The Washington Post</a> in response to the lawsuit over Anderson's death that the "disturbing 'challenge,' which people seem to learn about from sources other than TikTok, long predates our platform and has never been a TikTok trend.""We remain vigilant in our commitment to user safety and would immediately remove related content if found," the spokesperson said, adding that the company has blocked the hashtag #BlackoutChallenge from its search engine.In recent years several dangerous trends have gone viral on various social media platforms including TikTok, such as the <a href="https://www.insider.com/milk-crate-challenge-tiktok-injuries-dangerous-doctor-2021-8">milk crate challenge</a>, which involved people climbing on unsecured milk creates, and the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/25/fda-to-tiktok-teens-do-not-do-the-benadryl-challenge/">"Benadryl Challenge,"</a> which involved children taking the medicine to try to hallucinate. The notorious 2017 "Tide Pod" challenge involved young people eating laundry detergent capsules.

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