Game-Changing Lawsuit Takes on TikTok

A win would mean justice for Blackout Challenge victims — and significant consequences for Big Tech

Elizabeth Webster
An Injustice!
Published in
8 min readAug 12, 2022

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Image by Solen Feyissa via Unsplash

It isn’t the first lethal challenge to have gone viral on the internet. Swallowing Tide-pods, burning skin with salt and ice, and leaping out of moving cars have all presented a uniquely modern, disturbing form of peer pressure. But…

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I’m an attorney, a writer, and a boy mom. I write quasi-legal articles about the arts, digressing often into business and technology. My Twitter is @es_webster.