TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 2, 2022

Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, along with a bipartisan group of attorneys general, is leading a nationwide investigation of the social media platform TikTok to determine whether the company violated state consumer protection laws that put the public, especially children and young adults, at risk. The investigation will look into physical and mental health harms associated with use of the platform and what TikTok knew about those harms, as well as the techniques it used to engaged young users.