{"id":956490,"date":"2025-08-21T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956490"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:23:16","slug":"minnesota-sues-tiktok-alleging-it-preys-on-young-people-with-addictive-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/minnesota-sues-tiktok-alleging-it-preys-on-young-people-with-addictive-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota sues TikTok, alleging it preys on young people with addictive algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with addictive algorithms that trap them into becoming compulsive consumers of its short videos. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t about free speech. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re gonna holler that,&#8221; Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said at a news conference. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually about deception, manipulation, misrepresentation. This is about a company knowing the dangers, and the dangerous effects of its product, but making and taking no steps to mitigate those harms or inform users of the risks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with addictive algorithms that trap them into becoming compulsive consumers of its short videos. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t about free speech. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re gonna holler that,&#8221; Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said at a news conference. &#8220;It&#8217;s actually about deception, manipulation, misrepresentation. This is about a company knowing the dangers, and the dangerous effects of its product, but making and taking no steps to mitigate those harms or inform users of the risks.&#8221;<\/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-956490","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\/956490","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=956490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}