SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – California Attorney General Rob Bonta is demanding that TikTok comply with investigations into how the social media app may be harming children.
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The amicus brief filed by Bonta on Sunday supports a motion made in Tennessee, part of a country-wide effort to get more information from the social media app.
"That's what this investigation is about," he said. "Getting to the bottom of TikTok’s practices – what they knew and when they knew it and finding answers."
The main concern is what impact the app might have on children’s mental health and whether the app was made to keep kids using it longer.
"There is mounting evidence that shows the devastating toll that social media is taking on our children's mental health and wellbeing," said Bonta.
"I think it's incumbent upon me as a father, on me as attorney general for the state of California, as a father of three and for our attorneys general across the country – in a multi-state, bipartisan way, to do our part to reign in abuses by big tech," he said.
"Particularly when it harms our youngest residents," he added.
TikTok has shown that it knows this risk, according to Bonta, by limiting usage of the app to young kids in China, as an example.
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