clearly aimed at children. it says they look like cute, colorful emojis. and the lawsuit also claims that this incentive structure where people are performing live for money in real time could lead to the exploitation of children at claims that children can be encouraged by adults to perform elicit acts on camera in order to receive cash payments. and indeed it does claim that tiktok has known about this issue for some time and has failed to take appropriate action now, tiktok has responded, pushed back firmly against these claims. a spokesperson told me yesterday that the platform has industry-leading policies and measures to help protect the safety and well-being of teens. creators must be at least 18-years-old before they can go live and their account must meet a follower requirement, we immediately revoked access to features if we find accounts that do not meet our age requirements. but look, this lawsuit claims that tiktok is not doing enough to verify and enforce the ages of user
loved one who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, call us now the state of utah is once again coming after tiktok. this time claiming in a new lawsuit that the abs livestreaming feature could have harm children through sexual exploitation. this is the second time that utah his sued the social media platform over concerns about see the risks to young people who use the service. cnn business writer clare duffy is here with us and claire, the suit also claims that tiktok is fully aware of this issue, but will not address it. tell us more right. so this lawsuit specifically takes aim at tiktoks live streaming feature tiktok live, where users can host live videos. they can respond and interacts to comments in real time and tiktok also allows viewers to send monetary gifts to the people hosting live streams. often those are represented by colorful emojis and the lawsuit claims that those colorful emojis that represent cash payments are clearly designed to eight,
an ugly feud erupted last week between republican mace and green called her trash and used colorful emojis to describe green. kevin mccarthy called them both into their office and said stop it but they didn t. here s green telling steve bannon she s not interested in party unity. it s not about the party. it is not about oh, we have more republicans, we have more republican seats. not about that at all, steve. and the people know it. it s about winning elections with the right people that are actually going to put america first, put america-first policies in place and do the job they re elected to do. mccarthy admits he s still capable of leading. the classes you have seen in your caucuses earlier this week, if you re speaker, would that make it difficult for you to govern? no. we re going to be quite fine.
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well, the back and forth in congress is getting even more toxic. let s talk now about trump ally congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. she attacked a fellow house republican, nancy mace, on twitter. greene called mace, quote, trash and accused her of not being a true conservative. her final zinger was misspelled. she writes, your out of your league. i m going to have to deduct some points for that. what did mace do to spark that ire? she condemned gop congresswoman lauren boebert for hateful remarks about ilhan omar. now mace has responded. what s the latest in this back and forth? reporter: yeah, well, the interparty feud continues to escalate this afternoon. nancy mace responded by not only correcting greene s grammar but also implying, using some colorful emojis, that greene is crazy and a clown.