{"id":307261,"date":"2026-01-28T03:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:11:11","slug":"tiktok-settles-and-avoids-trial-in-social-media-addiction-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/307261\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok settles and avoids trial in social media addiction lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday! Here\u2019s your Tuesday Tech Drop, the past week\u2019s top stories from the intersection of politics and technology.<\/p>\n

TikTok avoids trial in addiction lawsuit<\/p>\n

TikTok<\/a> reached a settlement Tuesday that will allow the social media company to avoid going to trial as a defendant in a potentially landmark case involving allegations that TikTok and other platforms<\/a> fuel addiction.<\/p>\n

As the Associated Press reports:<\/p>\n

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The social video platform was one of three companies \u2014 along with Meta\u2019s Instagram and Google\u2019s YouTube \u2014 facing claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. A fourth company named in the lawsuit, Snapchat parent company Snap Inc., settled the case last week for an undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n

Details of the settlement with TikTok were not disclosed, and the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more at the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Newsom goes after TikTok<\/p>\n

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday<\/a> that he\u2019s launching a review of allegations of pro-Trump censorship at TikTok after the sale of its U.S. operations to Trump-supporting billionaire Larry Ellison\u2019s investment group.<\/p>\n

Read more at PC Mag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Robots writing the rules<\/p>\n

The Trump administration plans to use artificial intelligence to draft regulations \u2026 seriously. The Transportation Department is preparing to use Google\u2019s Gemini to write some of its rules, with one attorney touting AI\u2019s \u201cpotential to revolutionize the way we draft rulemakings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more at ProPublica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MAGA streamer\u2019s response to Pretti shooting<\/p>\n

MAGA streamer Zack Hoyt, who goes by the name \u201cAsmongold\u201d and has advocated violent extremism, warned that the Trump administration\u2019s federal immigration agents risk looking like the Nazi Gestapo after the fatal shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

Read more at MS NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

EU ignores Trump administration\u2019s threats<\/p>\n

The European Union defied the Trump administration\u2019s threats this week when it launched an official investigation into X owner Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot, Grok, after multiple controversies, including one involving sexually explicit imagery of children.<\/p>\n

Read more at MS NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJa\u2019han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut\u00a0Blog.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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