The lawsuit against TikTok accuses the company of exploiting young users and is based on a two-and-a-half-year investigation into the impacts of TikTok’s features and knowledge that these features were known to be addictive.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is seeking to enforce state consumer protection laws to stop the platform from capitalizing on young users, and wants to hold the defendants accountable for “unfairly and deceptively designing,