By Bob Katzen

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against TikTok for intentionally designing its social media platform to be addictive and harmful to young users and deceiving the public about its efforts to keep its platform safe.

The lawsuit alleges this violates the state’s consumer protection laws and has contributed to a youth mental health crisis among the hundreds of thousands of young people in the Bay State who use TikTok’s platform.

“Massachusetts will not tolerate a future where companies exploit the vulnerabilities of young people for profit,” said Campbell. “Today’s lawsuit further demonstrates my office’s focus on the wellbeing of our children by laying out arguments that TikTok, primarily driven by greed, designed technology that leads young people to become compulsive and addicted users of the platform, harming their wellbeing and contributing to the ongoing youth mental health crisis across our country.”