Judge rules TikTok broke a Texas law by misleading users on its child safety features.
A 2025 lawsuit claiming TikTok violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act will now go to trial after Judge Cory Liu granted the state’s request for a partial summary judgment on Thursday. The state had argued that TikTok said it would remove content with drugs, gambling, or graphic injuries but instead designated it “hard to find,” and said a Restricted Mode setting filtered out content that was inappropriate for minors while employees internally acknowledged it didn’t work as well as advertised. [Link: Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature | https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/texas-judge-rules-tiktok-misled-users-child-safety-feature-2026-09-11/ | Reuters]
A 2025 lawsuit claiming TikTok violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act will now go to trial after Judge Cory Liu granted the state’s request for a partial summary judgment on Thursday. The state had argued that TikTok said it would remove content with drugs, gambling, or graphic injuries but instead designated it “hard to find,” and said a Restricted Mode setting filtered out content that was inappropriate for minors while employees internally acknowledged it didn’t work as well as advertised. [Link: Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature | | Reuters]
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