2026年9月25日 / 美国东部时间晚上10:09 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
就在案件即将开庭审理前，TikTok与阿拉巴马州达成和解协议，TikTok将向阿拉巴马州支付至少1亿美元，并为该州青少年推出一系列安全功能。
阿拉巴马州于2025年对这家社交媒体公司提起诉讼，称该平台对青少年的心理健康造成了负面影响。
这起诉讼主张，TikTok的“成瘾性特质”——即为用户量身定制高度个性化内容的算法——对儿童有害，且该公司明知这些危害的存在。
阿拉巴马州总检察长办公室在宣布这项和解协议的声明中表示，阿拉巴马州将获得至少1亿美元的赔偿，如果满足特定条件，“最高可能获得3亿美元”。
根据和解协议，TikTok将对阿拉巴马州的青少年用户推出多项平台层面的调整措施，包括允许青少年选择非个性化内容信息流。
该平台还将禁止向青少年提供美容整形滤镜，设置每日两小时的使用时长限制，并禁止在午夜至早上6点之间使用。阿拉巴马州的年轻用户在连续使用15分钟、60分钟和90分钟后，还将被提示进行“高效暂停”。
“对于阿拉巴马州的家长来说，这是伟大的一天，”阿拉巴马州总检察长史蒂夫·马歇尔在声明中表示。“今晚，他们可以安心了，因为已经有了切实的保护措施，让他们的孩子免受社交媒体成瘾的危害。TikTok同意让家长能够切实掌控孩子在这款应用上看到的内容以及使用时长。我们从一开始就说，我们的首要目标是在阿拉巴马民众受到伤害时站出来支持他们，今天，我们做到了这一点。”
除了平台调整措施外，TikTok将向阿拉巴马州支付1亿美元作为赔偿和整改资金，这笔资金可能会用于资助青少年心理健康服务和其他相关项目。如果在特定时限内有足够多的其他州与TikTok达成符合条件的和解协议，阿拉巴马州还可额外获得最高1.838亿美元。
和解协议中提出的平台层面调整措施，与Meta今年夏天达成和解时同意做出的改动大致相似。Meta当时的和解协议解决了包括阿拉巴马州在内的几乎所有州提起的类似索赔。Meta曾呼吁TikTok及其其他主要竞争对手YouTube加入其行列，采用类似的标准，但TikTok尚未公开回应。
阿拉巴马州总检察长办公室首席法律顾问、该州下一任总检察长的共和党候选人凯瑟琳·罗伯逊承认，此次和解与Meta的和解协议存在相似之处，并在周五告诉美联社：“一场针对童年的战争正从四面八方袭来。”
“我们意识到，家长和青少年正在与众多不同的平台进行斗争，”罗伯逊说。“这些平台本质上是在操纵孩子，让他们对自己的产品上瘾。”
该和解协议还规定了更完善、更便于用户使用的家长控制功能，TikTok必须采取更严格的年龄验证措施，并强化内容审核规程。青少年账户还将默认设置为私密状态。
TikTok美国数据服务合资公司——负责在美国运营这家中国总部平台的国内投资者团体——的发言人周五在一份声明中表示，TikTok的优先级“始终是营造一个安全且积极的环境，让人们可以发挥创意、发现自己热爱的事物，并与社区建立联系。此次和解进一步落实了我们的承诺和核心目标，即不断强化我们完善的安全工具，保护青少年用户。”
阿拉巴马州本将成为首个在陪审团面前就针对TikTok的索赔主张进行庭审的州。原定于周一开庭审理此案。
此前，TikTok已在多起类似索赔的诉讼开庭前与原告达成和解，其中最引人注目的是今年早些时候在洛杉矶进行的具有里程碑意义的社交媒体成瘾案庭审。该案陪审团认定，YouTube和Meta在设计平台时，为了吸引年轻用户而不顾他们的身心健康。
TikTok还在8月份与美国司法部达成了4亿美元的和解协议，终结了2024年提起的一项指控该公司违反联邦儿童隐私法的诉讼。
TikTok settles Alabama lawsuit over youth safety concerns for at least $100 million
September 25, 2026 / 10:09 PM EDT / CBS/AP
TikTok will pay the state of Alabama at least $100 million and must implement a slew of safety features for teens in the state as part of a settlement agreement reached just before the case was set to go to trial.
Alabama sued the social media company in 2025, claiming the platform had negative effects on the mental well-being of youths.
The lawsuit argued that TikTok’s “addictive properties” — namely its algorithm that curates highly specific content catered to users’ interests — were harmful to children and that the company knew of those harms.
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office said in a statement announcing the agreement that Alabama would receive a minimum of $100 million but had the “potential to receive up to $300 million if certain conditions are met.”
Through the settlement, TikTok will make several platform-level changes for teen users in Alabama, including the option for teens to select a non-personalized content feed.
The platform will also bar cosmetic procedure filters for teens, implement a two-hour daily time limit and ban nighttime use from midnight to 6 a.m. Young users in Alabama will also be prompted to take a “productive pause” after 15 minutes of continuous use, and again at 60 and 90 minutes.
“This is a great day for Alabama parents,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement. “Tonight, they can rest easier knowing real protections are in place to shield their children from the dangers of social media addiction. TikTok has agreed to give parents real control over what their kids see and how much time they spend on the app. We’ve said from day one that our number one goal was to stand up for Alabamians when they are being harmed, and today, we did exactly that.”
In addition to the platform changes, TikTok will pay Alabama $100 million in restitution and remediation, which will likely go toward funding youth mental health services and other programs. If enough other states reach qualifying settlements with TikTok within a specific time frame, Alabama could receive up to an additional $183.8 million.
The platform-level changes outlined in the settlement agreement are roughly similar to changes Meta agreed to make when it reached a settlement this summer to resolve similar claims that were filed by nearly every state, including Alabama. Meta had called on TikTok and its other chief competitor, YouTube, to join it in adopting similar standards, but TikTok had not publicly responded.
Katherine Robertson, chief counsel in the Alabama Attorney General’s Office and the Republican nominee to be the state’s next attorney general, acknowledged the similarities with the Meta agreement and told The Associated Press on Friday: “There’s been a war on childhood coming from a million different directions.”
“We recognize that parents and youth are fighting a battle against a bunch of different platforms,” Robertson said. “They’re manipulating kids to get addicted to their product, essentially.”
The settlement also outlines more robust and user-friendly parental controls, stronger age verification measures TikTok must take, and stronger content moderation protocols. Teen accounts will also be set to private by default.
A spokesperson for the TikTok USDS Joint Venture — the group of domestic investors tasked with operating the China-based platform in the U.S. — said Friday in a statement that TikTok’s priority has “always been fostering a safe and positive space where people can be creative, discover what they love, and connect with their community. This builds on our commitment and core objective to continually enhance our robust safety tools to protect teens.”
Alabama would have been the first state to argue its claims against TikTok in front of a jury. The trial was scheduled to begin Monday.
TikTok has settled several lawsuits with similar claims filed by individuals before they went to trial, most notably in the landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles earlier this year. The jury in that case found that YouTube and Meta designed their platforms to hook young users without concern for their well-being.
TikTok also reached a $400 million settlement with the Justice Department in August, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws.
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