Social media giants Meta and TikTok are being sued by the state of Arkansas for allegedly intentionally designing their platforms to be manipulative and addictive to children, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Attorney General Tim Griffin announced on March 28.
Griffin has filed three separate lawsuits against the social media companies in state court: one against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and two lawsuits against TikTok and its parent company, Chinese-based ByteDance.
The lawsuits allege that both companies violated the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act, under which it is illegal to engage in false or deceptive business practices….