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TikTok young users

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 2863 Report
TikTok’s "For You" Allegedly Pushed Fatal “Blackout” Challenge Videos to Two Young Girls

2021-02-26

TikTok’s recommendation algorithm was alleged in a lawsuit to have intentionally and repeatedly pushed videos of the “blackout” challenge onto children’s feeds, incentivizing their participation which ultimately resulted in the death of two young girls.

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Incident 2793 Report
TikTok’s “For You” Algorithm Exposed Young Users to Pro-Eating Disorder Content

2019-07-01

TikTok’s young users were allegedly exposed to community-guideline-violating pro-eating disorder content on their algorithmically curated “For You” page that serves videos from any user on its platform.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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TikTok

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 286
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s "For You" Allegedly Pushed Fatal “Blackout” Challenge Videos to Two Young Girls

  • Incident 279
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s “For You” Algorithm Exposed Young Users to Pro-Eating Disorder Content

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Lalani Erika Renee Walton

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 286
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s "For You" Allegedly Pushed Fatal “Blackout” Challenge Videos to Two Young Girls

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Entity

Arriani Jaileen Arroyo

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 286
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s "For You" Allegedly Pushed Fatal “Blackout” Challenge Videos to Two Young Girls

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Lalani Erika Renee Walton's family

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 286
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s "For You" Allegedly Pushed Fatal “Blackout” Challenge Videos to Two Young Girls

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Arriani Jaileen Arroyo's family

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 286
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s "For You" Allegedly Pushed Fatal “Blackout” Challenge Videos to Two Young Girls

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TikTok users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 286
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s "For You" Allegedly Pushed Fatal “Blackout” Challenge Videos to Two Young Girls

  • Incident 279
    3 Reports

    TikTok’s “For You” Algorithm Exposed Young Users to Pro-Eating Disorder Content

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