A Texas judge has found TikTok liable for misleading parents about child safety

A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok broke state law by telling parents its app was safe for their children while knowing that it was not.

District Judge Cory Liu found that the company had intentionally misled the public about its safety standards, and he decided it on summary judgment, meaning he did not think the question needed a jury.

ikTok promoted Restricted Mode as the setting that would keep graphic material involving drugs, alcohol, nudity, and violence away from a child’s feed. Texas showed the court that children could still reach that material with the setting switched on.

The state also pointed to how TikTok sorted content internally: some things that broke its own community guidelines were filed as “hard to find” rather than “do not allow”, which left them on the platform and reachable, just less visible.

Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office brought the case...

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