Chase Nasca, a 16-year-old from Long Island, tragically died after being exposed to tailor-made suicide videos on TikTok, which were linked to his geographic location. His parents filed a lawsuit against TikTok and parent company ByteDance, claiming the platform's algorithms bombarded him with harmful content prior to his death. Despite TikTok's assertion that this content is protected under the First Amendment, the Nasca family argues that the platform had a duty of care to protect their son from harm, given the specific nature of the videos targeted at him.
Some of the videos TikTok directed to Chase, who lived a quarter mile from the LIRR tracks, encouraged young people to end their lives by stepping in front of a moving train.
TikTok used Chase's geolocating data to send him railroad themed suicide videos both before and after his death.
The Nasca filing argues that neither defense should let the social media behemoth off the hook in their son's case.
TikTok has copped to the fact that it monitors user location data to send people 'relevant' content.
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