Families sue TikTok after girls died while trying ‘blackout challenge’

Parents blame platform’s algorithms for choking deaths of eight- and nine-year-old

TikTok is being sued after two young girls died while trying to recreate a viral trend on the app called the "blackout challenge."

The lawsuits allege that Lalani Erika Walton, 8, and Arriani Jaileen Arroyo, 9, died after copying the trend in which participants try to choke themselves into unconsciousness, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The wrongful death lawsuits were filed on Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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