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French Government Takes Legal Action Against TikTok's Algorithm for Promoting Harmful Content to Minors
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France's Education Minister Édouard Geffray filed a legal complaint against TikTok, citing its AI-driven recommendation algorithm for rapidly exposing minors to depressive, self-harm, and suicide-inciting videos. The minister's experiment demonstrated the algorithm's harmful effects, prompting accusations of provocation to suicide and illicit data processing.