On August 15, 2025, a bipartisan coalition of 37 state Attorneys General, led by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, sent a letter to Instagram requesting that it make “immediate changes to its newly implemented location-sharing feature, which allows a user’s precise location to be displayed on a
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TikTok’s Motion to Dismiss Denied by NY State Court
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
New York Attorney General Letitia James and 13 other Attorneys General filed suit in October 2024 against TikTok “for misleading the public about the safety of its platform and harming young people’s mental health.” TikTok moved to dismiss the case and, on May 28, 2025, New York Supreme Court Judge Anar Rathod Patel denied the…
TikTok’s Legal Woes from State AGs Continues
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
Last week, we outlined the lawsuits against TikTok by New York, California, and North Carolina, that followed in the footsteps of Nebraska, Nevada (which filed suit against TikTok in February of 2024), and Indiana, which filed suit against TikTok in 2022. Since last week, at least 11 more states have joined the fray, including…
Three More States Sue TikTok Alleging Harm to Young Users
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Following in the footsteps of Nebraska, the Attorneys General of North Carolina, California, and New Jersey filed complaints against TikTok and its owner, ByteDance, Ltd., on October 8, 2024.
The suits are lengthy and full of allegations against TikTok and how it is responsible for a “profound mental health crisis” of American teenagers. The…