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>> right this morning and explosive new lawsuit against tiktok has now accused the social media app of creating a virtual strip club for children. >> the suit was filed by utah's attorney general who claims that tiktoks livestream it not only allows the sexual exploitation of minors, but it is connecting innocent victims to predators in real time. seen as clare duffy has the latest love is claire, what are you learning? >> right? >> so this lawsuit specifically does take issue with this livestream feature on tiktok called tiktok live. and that's where users can host live videos, interact with comments and with viewers in real time. and the platform also allows viewers to send monetary gifts, which are often represented by colorful emojis to the users hosting live streams. now, often you'll see a livestream are offering a shout out or in other incentive, if somebody sends them a gift. but this lawsuit claims that those kinds of incentives where users are performing for real-time, for money is vino can create some perverse incentives where