Families sue TikTok in France over teen suicides they say are linked to harmful content

(23 Jan 2025)
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Cassis, France – 10 December 2024
1. Various of Stéphanie Mistre in her daughter’s room looking at photos

FAMILY HANDOUT
ARCHIVE: Cassis, France – Exact dates unknown
2. Various self-shot videos that Marie Mistre posted to TikTok account

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Cassis, France – 10 December 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Stéphanie Mistre, mother of 15-year-old Marie who took her own life:
“So Marie really was a radiant young girl, full of life and funny. She was like Florence Foresti (French comedian) and wanted to make people laugh but also had a strong personality.”

FAMILY HANDOUT
ARCHIVE: Cassis, France – Exact dates unknown
4. Self-shot video posted by Marie Mistre with caption reading (French) "My year: bullied about my weight, repeating my year, family stress, my dog died, my boyfriend left me, my cousin in between life and death, smoking now an addiction, miscarriage"

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Cassis, France – 10 December 2024
5. Stéphanie Mistre in her daughter’s bedroom with writing on door reading (French) "little angel"
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Stéphanie Mistre, mother of 15 year-old Marie who took her own life:

“Three years ago, I had no idea what kind of content social platforms were pushing towards my daughter. If I had imagined that the content had to do with child sexual abuse, rape, physical violence, violence in general, ways of killing oneself and promoting suicide, you can imagine that – and she already had limits on her screen time – I would have never given my blessing for this application.”

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Paris, France – 30 December 2024
7. Various of Grégoire Borst, Professor of developmental psychology at Paris Cité University during interview
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Grégoire Borst, Professor of developmental psychology at Paris Cité University:
“I think it’s fair to say that for a subpopulation of teenagers, so the ones who already are experiencing some mental health issues, social media probably – and I will say probably – do not provide a positive outcome for this population. And it might even produce a negative outcome in terms of amplifications of some of the symptoms. But again, we cannot say more than that based on the scientific data as of today.”

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ARCHIVE: Boston, USA – 14 October 2022
9. STILL image of TikTok logo as seen on a cell phone

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ARCHIVE: Tokyo, Japan – 28 September 2022
10. STILL image of TikTok logo

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Paris, France – 30 December 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Grégoire Borst, Professor of developmental psychology at Paris Cité University:
“Like any tools that goes on the market, any tool, sorry, any toy that goes on the market, at least the European market, it needs to adhere to certain standards to make sure that they don’t, basically, will not harm the young users. I mean, social media, they don’t have those kind of a regulation. I mean, this is crazy if you think about it. I mean, it should be like mandatory that they really go through a process where it’s basically approved for those age groups.”

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ARCHIVE: Cologne, Germany – 25 August 2022
12. STILL image of person passing TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair

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Paris, France – 30 December 2024
13. Borst during interview
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Grégoire Borst, Professor of developmental psychology at Paris Cité University:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cassis, France – 10 December 2024
15. Various of Stéphanie Mistre in her daughter’s room and photos of her and others

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