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The lawsuit alleges 8-year-old Lalani, of Temple, Texas, and 9-year-old Arriani, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “died of self-strangulation while participating in TikTok’s ’Blackout Challenge ...
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 U.S. appeals court on Wednesday wrestled with whether the video-based social media platform TikTok could be sued for causing a 10-year-old girl's death by promoting a deadly "blackout challenge ...
The "blackout challenge" swept TikTok in 2021, and experts have been warning users not to try it since the early 2000s. ... The lawsuits, which claim wrongful death and point to the TikTok ...
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against TikTok, accusing the platform of hosting content that led to the death of at least seven children. [25] 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 ...
Skullbreaker challenge – A TikTok challenge that went viral in February 2020 and spread to other sections of the internet. The challenge involves two people convincing another person to jump, and then kick their legs out, causing the person jumping to fall on their head. Several people have been hospitalized after performing this challenge. [18]
A U.S. 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 "blackout challenge" in which users of the social media platform ...
The skullbreaker challenge, [1] also known as the tripping jump challenge, [2] is a physically dangerous internet challenge which surfaced on TikTok in 2020. It revolves around participants intentionally inflicting head trauma on each other, then uploading footage of the 'challenge' to social media .