State attorneys general add TikTok to child-safety probe
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- A group of state attorneys general is investigating TikTok (BDNCE), looking to probe the popular video social-media platform's potential negative effects on children.
- The bipartisan group of eight AGs had previously launched an investigation of Instagram (NASDAQ:FB) on similar concerns, and now expands its focus to TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance as well.
- “Today, attorneys general across the nation joined an investigation into TikTok for providing and promoting its social media platform to children and young adults while use is associated with physical and mental health harms,” the group says.
- That probe will touch on techniques used by TikTok to boost time spent on the platform and frequency of engagement, and as with Instagram, it's premised on whether the cmopanies violated state consumer-protection laws.
- The AGs represent California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee and Vermont.
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jdhawk
02 Mar. 2022
Zuckerbucks at Work: 91 Nursing Homes in 5 Wisconsin Cities Had 95% to 100% Voter Turnout Rates – They Abused Disabled Seniors and Stole Their Votes - On Tuesday morning the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections held an informational hearing on the Gableman 2020 Election Report featuring invited speakers Special Counsel and Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and Attorney Eric Kaardal.During his presentation, Justice Gableman played video of several victims of elderly abuse and voter theft. Several brave Wisconsin families reached out to Gableman and his committee after they discovered someone had voted for their loved one who resides in a nursing home. This happened all over Wisconsin.Justice Gableman disclosed during the hearing that the nursing homes in the Zuckerberg-funded cities had a 95% to 100% turnout. This is clear voter fraud they discovered.The video that played during the hearing today was heartbreaking.
It takes a special kind of evil to abuse disabled seniors.
It takes a special kind of evil to abuse disabled seniors.
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Little Dude
02 Mar. 2022
While they're at it, they should investigate that new fangled television and that noise they call rock and roll.
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Blowback2
02 Mar. 2022
If they REALLY cared about the children no school would allow soda vending machines..or candy machines...or...But, this is just about the money. And will continue.


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StandingWatch
02 Mar. 2022
I remember when orange man tried to ban TikTok on security concerns, but at least the mouth breathers are now finding a reason it might be harmful.ThE adULts arE in cHarGe.StandingWatchps I think that is how the cool kids do it