Lawmaker calls for French criminal investigation into TikTok | France
A French deputy asked a criminal investigation from the state prosecutor that Tiktok’s young users were responsible for “endangering his life”.
Arthur Delaporte, a socialist deputy, said that he witnessed a six -month French parliamentary investigation about the psychological effects of Tiktok on minors and witnessed families, social media administrators and impressives.
Told the publisher Fanceinfo: “The result is clear: Tiktok deliberately ended the health and lives of its users. So I decided to direct the issue to the Paris public prosecutor.
“It seems to me that there are criminal and active complexity, and the second, when Tiktok executives came to see us, they told us that they were unaware of anything… and I believe this is a lying.”
Deciding whether it will open an investigation about the popular short video platform is now connected to the prosecutor.
The French Parliamentary Committee was founded to examine the psychological effects of seven families who accused the platform of seven families accusing their children of exposing their children to end their lives after the 2024 French case against Tiktok and platform.
Parliamentary committee final reportTiktok, who was released on Thursday, found children like a “slow poison”. Co -chairman of the investigation, centralist deputy Laure Miller, French Info Tiktok’un algorithms holding them in a bubble, a very visible “harmful content ocean”, he said.
The report suggested that children under the age of 15 should be entirely forbidden to use social media and people between the ages of 15 and 18 should encounter the “digital curfew” at night, that is to say that social media cannot be used for themselves between 10: 00-08: 00.
The report also called for a great public information campaign and a new “digital negligence” crime for “irresponsible parents olmayan who did not control the use of social media.
Delaporte told France to info that it is a way to start a discussion in society. He said: “The main issue is how we can force European regulations and platforms to change their algorithms.”
A Tiktok spokesman said: “We categorically reject the misleading characterization of our platform’s platform that tries to establish a scape goat on industrial and social difficulties.
Tiktok executives by the Chinese company, the French Parliament committee, the application last year in France last year, 98% of the content that violated the service conditions of the Ai-developed moderation, he said.
Emmanuel Macron’s office said last year that he wanted to see a social media ban for children and young adolescents after he started to prepare Australia’s own turning point law for people under 16.
Géraldine, who ended her 18-year-old daughter, told Agency France-Presse that she had discovered her daughter Tiktok after her daughter’s death and discovered the self-harm videos she looked at.
“Tiktok didn’t kill our little girl because it wasn’t good in any case,” he said. However, Tiktok accused Tiktok of being inadequate in online moderation and immersing his daughter deeper into his dark impulses.
Agent France-Presse and Reuters contributed to this report
