{"id":74920,"date":"2026-06-15T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/florida-lawsuit-accuses-tiktok-of-violating-states-child-social-media-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:55:40","slug":"florida-lawsuit-accuses-tiktok-of-violating-states-child-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/florida-lawsuit-accuses-tiktok-of-violating-states-child-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state\u2019s child social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State\u2019s attorney general alleges TikTok exposed children to harmful sexual content and addictive features<\/p>\n<p>Florida became the latest state to sue TikTok on Monday after the attorney general<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridalegal.com\/newsrelease\/ag-james-uthmeier-launches-lawsuit-against-tiktok-deceiving-parents-about-safety-its\"> accused<\/a> the company of violating a state law that limits social media access for teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference, Republican James Uthmeier said TikTok exposed children to harmful sexual content and addictive features, such as unlimited scrolling and push notifications. \u201cIt\u2019s designed to keep kids stuck on those screens for hours,\u201d Uthemeier said at a press conference. \u201cOur evidence suggests that so many kids are on TikTok for upwards of six, seven, eight or more hours a day. We are going to get our kids their lives back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/15\/florida-sues-tiktok-teen-social-media-access-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State\u2019s attorney general alleges TikTok exposed children to harmful sexual content and addictive features Florida became the latest state to sue TikTok on Monday after the attorney general accused the company of violating a state law that limits social media access for teenagers. In a press conference, Republican James Uthmeier said TikTok exposed children to &#8230; <a title=\"Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state\u2019s child social media ban\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/florida-lawsuit-accuses-tiktok-of-violating-states-child-social-media-ban\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state\u2019s child social media ban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}