Italian police: TikTok choking video incites suicide

Italian investigators have been probing TikTok, a video-sharing network owned by Chinese company ByteDance, since the death last week of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly participated in such a ‘choking game’, in which restricted oxygen to the brain induces a high. — AFP

ROME: Italian police on Jan 28 accused a Sicilian woman of “inciting suicide” for an asphyxiation video she posted on TikTok, a week after a child accidentally died in a so-called blackout challenge.

Police said the video, posted without restrictions on the social media platform by the 48-year-old Sicilian “influencer”, was “extremely dangerous” and able to be viewed by everyone, including children.