A bipartisan group of 14 attorneys general accuse the company of using addictive features to hook children.

The lawsuit comes as TikTok is already under fire in the U.S. for other legal reasons, and other social media apps are under scrutiny for their effects on the livelihood of teen and child users as well.

The states also want TikTok to stop collecting data on its young users without consent. TikTok called the lawsuit claims inaccurate and misleading. New York Attorney General Letit

More than a dozen states have filed a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging that the short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms young people's mental health.

Massachusetts has joined more than a dozen states in suing TikTok, claiming the app's design causes addiction and harms the mental health of young users.

Washington, D.C.’s filing called the algorithm “dopamine-inducing” alleging that the programming was created to be addictive to keep young users on it for hours with TikTok knowing that the addiction will lead to “profound psychological and physiological harms” like depression,