{"id":1034628,"date":"2026-09-12T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034628"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:37:37","slug":"texas-judge-rules-tiktok-misled-users-on-child-safety-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/texas-judge-rules-tiktok-misled-users-on-child-safety-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A \u200bTexas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok \u200bviolated the state&#8217;s consumer protection law by misleading users about how it filtered content for minors and whether its &#8220;Restricted Mode&#8221; feature shielded \u200cchildren from \u2060inappropriate material. <\/p>\n<p>\u2060Texas sued TikTok in January 2025, alleging it marketed its platform \u200bas safe for children. <\/p>\n<p>TikTok did not immediately respond to a \u200brequest for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u200bTexas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok \u200bviolated the state&#8217;s consumer protection law by misleading users about how it filtered content for minors and whether its &#8220;Restricted Mode&#8221; feature shielded \u200cchildren from \u2060inappropriate material. \u2060Texas sued TikTok in January 2025, alleging it marketed its platform \u200bas safe for children. TikTok did not immediately respond to a \u200brequest for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034655,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034628\/revisions\/1034655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}