United States of America: AIowa Attorney General filed lawsuit against TikTok for alleged deception about children's access to inappropriate content

On 17 January 2024, the Iowa Attorney General (AG) announced a lawsuit against TikTok. The lawsuit stated that TikTok is deceiving users, particularly parents, about the widespread access to inappropriate content on its app by minors. The lawsuit, which claims a violation of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act, aims to prevent TikTok from misleading parents and users about the availability of inappropriate content on the app. The lawsuit alleges that TikTok misrepresented the severity of its content, bypassing parental controls and exposing young users to graphic materials such as sexual content, self-harm, and illegal drug use. The lawsuit also challenges TikTok's misleading statements about its parental controls in the platform's Community Guidelines and in the Google and Microsoft app stores.