TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement

TikTok volition wage Alabama astatine slightest $100 cardinal successful a colony tied to allegations that the short-form video level misled users astir information and was designed to addict children. The lawsuit was scheduled to spell to proceedings connected Monday.

According to the Alabama lawyer general’s office, TikTok could extremity up paying the authorities a full of $300 million, depending connected “certain conditions.” The institution besides agreed to present a two-hour regular clip bounds for underage users, with further parental controls, arsenic good arsenic restrictions connected overnight usage and cosmetic filters.

In a statement, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said that parents successful his authorities tin present “rest easier knowing existent protections are successful spot to shield their children from the dangers of societal media addiction.”

TikTok besides released a statement saying that the colony “builds connected our committedness and halfway nonsubjective to continually heighten our robust information tools to support teens.”

In August, TikTok reached a $400 cardinal colony with the Department of Justice implicit allegations that the level violated kid privateness laws.