US EditionParis Prosecutor’s Office Investigates TikTok over Youth Suicide Content
The investigation follows a lawsuit by seven French families and reports citing TikTok's algorithm promoting suicide content to minors, with 90% of violative videos reportedly removed early.
- On Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into TikTok over alleged suicide-promoting content and its algorithm's effect on vulnerable youth.
- Last year, seven families sued TikTok France, accusing the platform of failing to moderate harmful content and exposing children to life-threatening material, and two of the seven experienced the loss of a child including 15-year-old Marie Le Tiec.
- Stephanie Mistre said she found videos promoting suicide methods and tutorials on her daughter's phone, with the algorithm repeatedly pushing such content and `normalizing self‑harm`, she said.
- The Paris police cybercrime brigade will investigate possible crimes including propaganda for suicide methods and illicit transactions, with convictions potentially leading to several years in prison and fines, TikTok disputed the parliamentary report, citing over 50 teen safety features and 9 in 10 videos removed before viewing.
- Amid broader scrutiny of social platforms, parliamentary probe , Amnesty International, and French Senate reports flagged psychological harms and the story lists suicide resources: 988 lifeline , 988lifeline.org, and www.iasp.info/suicidalthoughts.
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Paris, France. French justice opened a preliminary investigation after a parliamentary commission denounced the “accessability” of minors to the TikTok algorithm, “susceptible to push” the most “vulnerable to suicide,” announced on Tuesday the Paris prosecutor. The parliamentary inquiry commission on TikTok claimed in September to have met “an ocean of harmful content,” with videos that “promote suicide and self-harm” and “an exposure to violenc…
TikTok Under Fire: Paris Investigates Allegations of Suicide Promotion
TikTok Under Fire: Paris Investigates Allegations of Suicide Promotion The Paris prosecutor's office has begun investigating TikTok over accusations that the platform permits suicide-promoting content, potentially putting vulnerable young users at risk. This move aligns with growing concerns from French families, a parliamentary inquiry, and reports by institutions like Amnesty International.The prosecutor's office will scrutinize whether TikTok…
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PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday it has opened an investigation into TikTok over allegations that the platform allows content promoting suicide and that its algorithms may encourage vulnerable young people to take their own lives. The announcement follows a lawsuit targeting TikTok by several French families, a French parliamentary probe into the psychological impact of TikTok on children and reports detailing similar issu…
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