BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana’s highest state court has shot down an attempt by social media platform TikTok and its owners to dismiss a lawsuit being argued by state attorneys.

TikTok and its parent company sought to have the lawsuit dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction after state Attorney General Liz Murrill filed suit in Livingston Parish, claiming that the app exploits and harms young people by failing to fully disclose any perceived dangers tied to young people using the app. The challenge has already been denied in a lower court.

“TikTok has intentionally injected itself into Louisiana and engineered its product to drive harmful content to kids. They profit mightily from this enterprise, so it’s only proper they face the consequences in our courts,” Murrill’s staff wrote in

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