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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 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>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

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