The parents said they wished they had never allowed their children to access social media, and they did not realise how limited their rights to access their children’s data were.
Four British parents who are suing TikTok for the alleged wrongful deaths of their children say they are “suspicious” about the social media platform’s claim to have deleted their children’s data.
Roome said the families had filed the lawsuit in the US after coming across the Social Media Victims Law Center because they couldn’t get any UK lawyers to take on the case on a pro bono basis.
Walsh said that if the US courts determined that “an algorithm sent my child destructive videos and it led to her mindset being into a downward spiral of which she didn’t feel she could get out of”, then he would like to bring corporate manslaughter charges in the UK courts.
Liam Walsh expressed scepticism that TikTok would have deleted data for his daughter, Maia, who died aged 14, given that, unlike the other three children, her inquest remains open.
