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Dave Yost: “China itself limits the exposure of its children to TikTok.”

Featuring: Dave Yost, Republican | Attorney General of Ohio

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Extended Interview Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost reflects on 2022.

Published | Video Starts at 06:01

There was this TikTok challenge. We had a little boy, 12 years old in Cleveland, asphyxiated himself and it looks like he was responding to that challenge. China itself limits the exposure of its children to TikTok. So I think that it's important for us to recognize that these powerful new platforms are playing with our brains in ways that we haven't fully thought through and research that we're seeing about children using them. (06:01–06:10)

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