Long Island TikTok lawsuit: Parents counter First Amendment claim

Attorneys for the parents of a Bayport teenager who took his own his life in 2022 after his TikTok page allegedly was inundated with videos promoting suicide are urging a Suffolk judge to reject the social media app’s argument that the First Amendment bars their claim.

A filing this month from the parents of late 16-year-old Chase Nasca followed President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order allowing TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. for 75 days. The order was issued hours after the ban, which had been approved by Congress and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, went into effect.

TikTok designed an “unreasonably dangerous social media product” that prompted Chase’s suicide and the company must be held responsible, attorney Harris Marks wrote in Feb. 5 court paperwork opposing the app’s December motion to dismiss the litigation.

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