In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the bedroom where she died by suicide.
“I went from light to darkness in a fraction of a second,” Mistre said, describing the day in September 2021 that marked the start of her fight against TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app she blames for pushing her daughter toward despair.
Delving into her daughter’s phone after her death, Mistre discovered videos promoting suicide methods, tutorials and comments encouraging users to go beyond “mere suicide attempts.”
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Stephanie Mistre holds a photo of her daughter Marie Le Tiec inside her home where the teenager died of suicide in 2021. AP
She said TikTok’s algorithm had repeatedly pushed such content to her daughter.
“It
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