A collective called Algos Victima was formed in France to take TikTok to court. These families blame the Chinese application for the lack of protection of minors.
The European Commission announced the opening of a “formal procedure” to examine whether the social network TikTok has infringed the rules on European digital services. The announcement of this legal action comes a few months after the first French complaint filed against TikTok last September by the parents of Marie, a 15-year-old teenager who killed herself in 2021. The parents accuse the algorithm of TikTok for having accentuated the teenager's discomfort by not censoring content related to suicide or self-harm. The young girl also suffered from school bullying. The group hopes it hopes “that these steps will encourage digital giants to radically rethink the design of their services to protect minor users” In a press release published on the website of the Lève les Yeux association, the Algo Victima collective says it hopes it ‘encourages digital giants’ to ‘radically rethink’ their services.