Hartford – Connecticut (US): Senator Blumenthal urged the TikTok CEO to enforce the effort to take down the harmful content from the platform after a 12-year-old boy from East Haven was seriously injured while trying to recreate the Whoosh Bottle Experiment he saw on TikTok,

Time and again, TikTok users including children are seriously injured attempting to emulate videos they watch. Yet TikTok has repeatedly failed to remove dangerous videos in the absence of external pressure. Until the Whoosh Bottle Experiment caused a severe injury, videos associated with the experiment remained active on your platform.

Blumenthal to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew