9月25日：阿拉巴马州的一个陪审团将审理该州的指控，即TikTok及其中国母公司字节跳动让该平台令年轻用户上瘾，并误导消费者关于其安全性的信息。这是针对该公司因社交媒体对青少年福祉的影响而引发的大规模诉讼中，首个进入审判阶段的案件。
Sept 25 : An Alabama jury will hear the state's claims that TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance made the platform addictive to young users and misled consumers about its safety, in the first case against the company to reach trial in the sweeping litigation over social media's impact on teen wellbeing.
该审判定于周一在蒙哥马利州法院开庭，预计将持续两到三周，这可能难得地揭示TikTok的内部运作，此前该公司已和解了其他入选审判的案件，并力求将其运营细节隐藏在公众视野之外。
The trial, which is scheduled to kick off Monday in Montgomery state court and expected to last two to three weeks, could provide a rare look inside TikTok, which has settled prior cases selected for trial and sought to keep details of its operations from public view.
阿拉巴马州的诉讼是由州检察长、共和党人史蒂夫·马歇尔于去年提起的。至少还有27个其他州和华盛顿特区也提起了诉讼。
Alabama’s lawsuit was filed last year by state Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican. At least 27 other states and Washington, D.C., have also sued.
TikTok表示，其在设计平台时将青少年安全作为重中之重，并辩称联邦《通信规范法》第230条保护在线平台免于因用户生成内容而承担责任。
TikTok has said it designed its platform with teen safety as a key priority and argued that Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act shields online platforms from liability over user-generated content.
阿拉巴马州检察长办公室和TikTok的代表均未就审判回应置评请求。TikTok的美国业务今年已移交给一个由美国投资者领导、字节跳动持股20%的实体。
Representatives for the Alabama attorney general's office and TikTok, whose US operations were transferred this year to an entity led by US investors and 20 per cent owned by ByteDance, did not respond to requests for comment about the trial.
阿拉巴马州指控，TikTok源源不断的视频流使其成为最令人上瘾的社交媒体平台，其算法将年轻用户推向越来越极端的暴力和自残内容，加剧了青少年心理健康危机，导致该州因自残前往急诊室的就诊人数“飙升”。诉讼指控TikTok虚假宣称其限制年轻用户接触性和暴力内容，以便在谷歌、苹果和微软运营的应用商店中让其应用获得适合青少年的评级，并误导用户关于中国政府获取美国用户数据的情况。该州寻求处罚和其他救济。
Alabama claims TikTok's endless stream of videos makes it the most addictive social media platform and that its algorithm pushes young users toward increasingly intense content about violence and self-harm, contributing to a teen mental health crisis and causing the number of emergency room visits for self-harm in the state to "skyrocket." The lawsuit accuses TikTok of falsely claiming it limits access to sexual and violent content for young users in order to have its app rated safe for teens in app stores run by Google, Apple and Microsoft and of misleading users about the Chinese government's access to US users' data.
文件被遮盖、卷宗被封存 TikTok决定和解关键案件，并致力于封存或大幅遮盖法庭记录，使得这家私营公司运营的大量证据未能公之于众。
The state seeks penalties and other relief. REDACTED DOCUMENTS, SEALED FILINGS TikTok’s decision to settle key cases and efforts to seal or heavily redact court records have kept much of the evidence about the privately held company's operations out of public view.
除了各州的诉讼外，TikTok还面临个人、学区和市政府提起的数千起诉讼，指控其对年轻用户的心理健康造成影响。Meta Platforms、Snap Inc和Alphabet旗下的YouTube也是许多此类案件的被告。
In addition to the states' cases, TikTok faces thousands of lawsuits by individuals, school districts and municipalities over its alleged impact on young users' mental health. Meta Platforms, Snap Inc and Alphabet's YouTube are also defendants in many of these cases.
TikTok已和解所有被选为审理的针对其的案件，包括五名年轻人和肯塔基州一个学区的索赔。
TikTok had settled all cases selected for trial against it, including claims by five young people and a Kentucky school district.
阿拉巴马州的诉讼称，TikTok要求用户自行申报年龄，但也允许用户在不创建账户的情况下观看视频，从而规避其年龄询问，这仍然允许公司收集他们的观看习惯数据。根据诉讼，缺乏有效的年龄限制使得“儿童模式”等功能完全失效，该模式旨在为年轻用户策划内容。
Alabama’s lawsuit claims TikTok asks users to self-report their ages, but it also allows users to evade its questions about their age by viewing videos without creating an account, which still allows the company to collect data on their viewing habits. The lack of an effective age restriction makes things like “Kids Mode,” which curates content for young users, entirely useless, according to the lawsuit.
该州还指控该平台将孩子们困在所谓的“过滤气泡”中，向他们推送越来越强烈的、吸引他们注意力的主题内容，包括暴力或有害材料。
The state also claims the platform traps kids in so-called “filter bubbles,” feeding them increasingly intense content on subjects that capture their attention, including violent or harmful material.
上个月，Meta与47个州、华盛顿特区和美国领土达成了一项广泛的171亿美元和解协议。Meta在不承认过错的情况下，同意作为协议一部分对青少年访问Instagram和Facebook进行更改，并将50亿美元的赔偿金以TikTok、Snap和YouTube采纳这些条款为条件。TikTok尚未公开对该协议发表评论。
Last month, Meta reached a sweeping $17.1 billion settlement with 47 states, Washington, D.C., and US territories. Meta, which did not admit wrongdoing, agreed to make changes to teens' access to Instagram and Facebook as part of the deal and conditioned $5 billion of the payout on TikTok, Snap and YouTube's adoption of those terms. TikTok has not said anything publicly about the deal.