In February 2021, a nine-year-old girl in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, choked to death after wrapping a household item around her neck while allegedly trying to perform the blackout challenge ...

TikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who say their children died of strangulation attempting the “blackout challenge,” after the app showed them videos of other people trying it.

Another child has died after attempting the deadly online “blackout challenge” that’s been blamed for multiple youth deaths. Leon Brown, 14, passed just weeks after fellow brit Archie ...

The "blackout challenge" was one of the most dangerous trends to hit TikTok back in 2021. While it's not a new concept, the challenge's resurgence is being linked to deaths in young users.

The “blackout challenge” has been trending in recent years, following the deaths of children who participated. Now bereaved British parents of four children, all aged 12-14, are suing TikTok ...

alleging her child died from the "blackout challenge." That lawsuit also lists other victims. Attorneys general from several states, including California, are also looking into the harmful ...

The lawsuit claims Isaac Kenevan, 13, Archie Battersbee, 12, Julian 'Jools' Sweeney, 14, and Maia Walsh, 13, died from doing the 'blackout challenge', popular on the video-sharing app.

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 ...

Share on Pinterest TikTok’s viral “blackout challenge” (also known as the “choking challenge” can lead to permanent brain damage or death in under five minutes. Sneksy/Getty Images The ...

Several kids died taking part in the “Blackout Challenge," which Third Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz described in her opinion as encouraging users "to choke themselves with belts, purse strings ...

TikTok must now face a lawsuit brought by the mourning mother of a 10-year-old girl from Pennsylvania who died while she attempted a viral challenge that dares participants to choke themselves ...

Families of four British children are suing TikTok, alleging the 'blackout challenge' led to their deaths, as they seek access to social media data for answers A TikTok executive has said that the ...