Roome said the case “is not about money”.
“I want to see what my child was looking at, and if it is social media, I want accountability.
“Social media companies are feeding our children harmful material.
“They make their products addictive by design so they automatically have hooked in children and adults.”
She added it was time “these big companies actually became accountable and took some responsibility”.
“I just don’t feel they’ve got any morals about looking after our children properly,” Roome said.
TikTok chiefs said their “deepest sympathies remain with these families”.
“We strictly prohibit content that promotes or encourages dangerous behaviour.
“Using robust detection systems and dedicated enforcement teams to proactively identify and remove this content, we remove 99% that’s found to break these rules before it is reported to us,” a TikTok spokesperson added.
TikTok is bidding to dismiss the filing because the court has no jurisdiction over defendants mainly based in the UK and that established US law, like the First Amendment of the US Constitution, bars liability for third-party content hosted on TikTok.