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Screenshots from videos in Chase Nasca’s feed in early 2022. 

Screenshots from videos in Chase Nasca’s feed in early 2022. 

Source: Social Media Victims Law Center

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The Big Take

TikTok’s Algorithm Keeps Pushing Suicide to Vulnerable Kids

The superpopular app can serve up a stream of anxiety and despair to teens. TikTok says it’s making improvements but now faces a flood of lawsuits after multiple deaths.

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TikTok’s algorithm doesn’t know Chase Nasca is dead.

More than a year after Nasca killed himself at age 16, his account remains active. Scroll through his For You feed, and you see an endless stream of clips about unrequited love, hopelessness, pain and what many posts glorify as the ultimate escape: suicide.

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