Arkansas Sues Meta, TikTok for Designing ‘Addictive’ Platforms, Exposing Personal Data

Arkansas Sues Meta, TikTok for Designing ‘Addictive’ Platforms, Exposing Personal Data
The logo for social media app TikTok is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on an American flag background in Arlington, Va., on Aug. 3, 2020. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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Social media giants Meta and TikTok are being sued by the state of Arkansas for allegedly intentionally designing their platforms to be manipulative and addictive to children, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Attorney General Tim Griffin announced on March 28.

Griffin has filed three separate lawsuits against the social media companies in state court: one against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and two lawsuits against TikTok and its parent company, Chinese-based ByteDance.

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Katabella Roberts is a news writer for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States, world, and business news.
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