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The blackout challenge is an internet challenge based around the choking game, which deprives the brain of oxygen. [1] It gained widespread attention on TikTok in 2021, primarily among children. [2] It has been compared to other online challenges and hoaxes that have exclusively targeted a young audience. [3]
A challenge, named the "Blackout challenge", became widespread on TikTok in 2021, resulting in multiple fatalities of children. [14] Injuries and fatalities.
The “blackout challenge,” or “choking challenge,” is an online challenge proliferated through social media apps such as TikTok that encourages viewers to asphyxiate themselves until they ...
The "blackout challenge" was one of the most dangerous trends to hit TikTok back in 2021.. While it's not a new concept, the challenge's resurgence is being linked to deaths in young users.
A forensic analysis of the young girl's phone showed that she was using TikTok to watch blackout challenge videos just before she died. In May 2022, her mother, Tawainna Anderson, ...
The lawsuits claim that children died after attempting the "Blackout challenge", a TikTok trend that involves strangling or asphyxiating someone or themselves until they black out (passing out). TikTok stated that search queries for the challenge do not show any results, linking instead to protective resources, while the parents of two of the ...
It was the TikTok-infamous “Blackout Challenge” that killed 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, according to her mom.In December 2021, Philadelphia-area resident Tawainna Anderson discovered her ...
Anderson v. TikTok, 2:22-cv-01849, (E.D. Pa.), is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in which the court held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), 47 U.S.C. § 230, does not bar claims against TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, regarding TikTok's recommendations to users via its algorithm.