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(New York, NY) — The mother of a 15-year-old Manhattan boy, who died last year while subway surfing through Brooklyn says TikTok, and Meta should shoulder some of the blame for his tragic death. Norma Nazario says Tik Tok’s algorithms constantly fed videos of other subway surfing videos into in her son, Zachery’s feed. Zackery was subway surfing on a Brooklyn-bound J train over the Williamsburg Bridge on February 20th, 2023 when a low beam struck him in the head. After her son’s death, Norma found lots of videos of subway surfing on his social media accounts.
Matthew Bergman is Nazario’s lawyer. He works with the Social Media Victims Law Center, which represents families who are taking on the social media giants. He also believes the algorithms on social media platforms are partially responsible for Zackery’s subway surfing death. Bergman says the Nazario family has filed suit now against TikTok and Meta.
Nazario says she is also suing the MTA because she believes they could have prevented her son’s accident by cutting off access to the roof of the trains.
