Montana ‘s top attorney has sued TikTok , accusing the Chinese -owned company of turning a blind eye to “harmful” content being exposed to its underage users.
Montana Republican Attorney General Austin Knudsen said TikTok was wrong for marketing the app as being friendly to younger users, saying an investigation led by the Montana Department of Justice uncovered “virtually endless amounts of extreme and mature videos presented to children as young as 13.”
TikTok claims that content referencing alcohol, tobacco, drugs, sexual content, and mature themes is infrequent and mild, but the Montana Department of Justice found numerous videos with these themes with “hundreds of millions of views.”…