Bergman's six-month old Social Media Victims Law Center represents the families of the two girls - who died after attempting the so-called "blackout challenge," where people are dared to choke ...

TikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who say their children died of strangulation attempting the “blackout challenge,” after the app showed them videos of other people trying it.

But the spokeswoman referred to a statement from December, when People magazine reported that a mother from Pennsylvania said her 10-year-old daughter had died while trying the blackout challenge.

The lawsuit claimst TikTok knows many of its users are under 13, and that it markets to people ... died from self-asphyxiation as a direct result of attempting TikTok’s “Blackout Challenge.” ...

Nylah was rushed to the hospital, where she died five days later. Over an 18-month span between 2021 and 2022, the Blackout Challenge was said to have killed 20 children in 18 months, 15 of them ...

Nnamdi Glenn Ohaeri Jr.’s parents believe he died after participating in a game similar to the deadly “Blackout Challenge” Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

A TikTok spokesperson told People that "this disturbing ... showed that she was using TikTok to watch blackout challenge videos just before she died. In May 2022, her mother, Tawainna Anderson ...

“This disturbing ‘challenge,’ which people seem to learn about ... “Ten-year-old Nylah Anderson died from attempting the Blackout Challenge because the TikTok Defendants’ dangerously ...

The blackout challenge encourages people to record themselves as they engage in self-asphyxiation, sometimes to the point of unconsciousness. Nylah saw the challenge, tried it herself and died.

(Screengrab Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky) It was the TikTok-infamous “Blackout Challenge ... feeding the Blackout Challenge to children, including those who had died,” Anderson’s original ...

Nylah was rushed to the hospital, where she died five days later. In May 2022, Anderson sued TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance, arguing they were aware of the Blackout Challenge and its ...