{"id":849367,"date":"2024-08-29T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=849367"},"modified":"2024-08-29T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:46:48","slug":"tiktok-must-face-lawsuit-over-10-year-old-girls-death-us-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/29\/tiktok-must-face-lawsuit-over-10-year-old-girls-death-us-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl&#8217;s death, US court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral &#8220;blackout challenge&#8221; in which users of the social media platform were dared to choke themselves until they passed out.<\/p>\n<p>While a federal law typically shields internet companies from lawsuits over content posted by users, the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled the law does not bar Nylah Anderson&#8217;s mother from pursuing claims that TikTok&#8217;s algorithm recommended the challenge to her daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral &#8220;blackout challenge&#8221; in which users of the social media platform were dared to choke themselves until they passed out. While a federal law typically shields internet companies from lawsuits over content posted by users, the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled the law does not bar Nylah Anderson&#8217;s mother from pursuing claims that TikTok&#8217;s algorithm recommended the challenge to her daughter.<\/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-849367","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\/849367","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=849367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}