As Law&Crime previously reported, Nylah Anderson died in December 2021 after apparently attempting the viral “Blackout Challenge” and asphyxiating herself. As described in a lawsuit against ...

"The TikTok Defendants' algorithm determined that the deadly Blackout Challenge was well-tailored and likely to be of interest to 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, and she died as a result," the lawsuit ...

The “Blackout Challenge” had previously been implicated in the death of several children, some of whom were younger than 12 years old. Her estate sued TikTok and its parent company and ...

The TikTok 'Blackout Challenge' has been the source of numerous deaths across the country, typically in young children, including a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl, a 12-year-old Colorado boy ...

The platform is also being sued by the family of a ten-year-old girl, Nylah Anderson, whose death was linked to the blackout challenge. After the wrongful death lawsuit was filed in May ...

The "Blackout Challenge" — sometimes referred to as ... and can be traced back at least as far as 2008, when 82 youths died as a result of the game, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

A mother filed a wrongful death suit against TikTok after her 10-year-old daughter died from attempting the Blackout Challenge (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The mother of a ...

(Reuters) - TikTok Inc won dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of causing the death of a 10-year-old girl by promoting a deadly "blackout challenge" that encouraged people to choke themselves on ...