Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s office has announced a lawsuit against the app TikTok and its owners, claiming that it exposed teenage users to inappropriate and addictive content.
The suit accuses TikTok and its parent company ByteDance of violating a Montana consumer protection law by misleading the public about who the app is appropriate for.
“TikTok must be held accountable for poisoning the minds of children and lying to parents about the videos their children can view on the app,” Knudsen said in a statement. “Parents need to know the truth about the content their children have access to on the app and TikTok is pushing to their feeds. As attorney general, it’s my job to hold bad actors deceiving Montanans accountable and I intend to do just that.”