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TikTok: an online platform where you can learn anything from recipes to pop culture to the latest trends, including one coined “Hot Girl Walks.” Videos with the new hashtag “Hot Girl Walk” encourage users to go on a walk as a form of exercise, mediation or a chance to reflect.  “Being a ‘hot girl’ has nothing to do with how…

Tik Tok: an online platform where you can learn anything from recipes to pop culture to the latest trends, including one coined “Hot Girl Walks.”

The announcement comes after several Tik Tok Challenges swept through the country and in CT resulting in high school property being vandalized and threats.

Attorney General William Tong announced a nationwide, multistate investigation into TikTok for providing and promoting its social media platform to children and young adults while use is associated with physical and mental health harms. The Wednesday announcement is a part of an effort to figure out if the social media platform violated state consumer protection laws that put the public…

Dangerous social media trends inside schools led the conversation among New Britain school leaders, Attorney General William Tong, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, parents and students. The emergency summit is in response to some of the recent TikTok challenges happening inside New Britain schools and schools around the state. Students along with parents voiced their concerns Thursday about how social media platforms…

Viral TikTok challenges have garnered the attention of state leaders. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal and Attorney General William Tong met Thursday with students, staff and administrators at New Britain High School for an emergency summit. New Britain High closed for one day in September, in part because of the “devious licks” challenge, where students vandalize school property. “It was...

State and local leaders are holding an emergency summit over troubling TikTok challenges impacting schools.

A student assaulted a Braintree Public Schools employee on Thursday, officials said, calling it a part of the purported “slap a teacher” TikTok challenge that’s sounding alarm bells among educators nationwide. The officials didn’t say what school the incident took place at or give any details about what allegedly happened, and it wasn’t immediately clear if the incident was...

School officials are sounding the alarm about a new Tik Tok trend that has teens damaging school property.

School leaders in Connecticut are reporting vandalism that they say is tied to a viral social media challenge encouraging students to either destroy or steal school property.

Doctors are warning people not to participate in TikTok’s latest viral trend, the ‘frozen honey challenge.’ Here’s what you need to know.