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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird filed a lawsuit this week seeking to require TikTok to change its age rating in the Apple App Store.

Bird is seeking a temporary injunction that would require TikTok, a video social media app, to change its age rating to “17+” in the App Store until the lawsuit is resolved. The state attorney general sued TikTok in January, claiming that the app and its owner were deceiving parents with the current “12+” age rating, as some videos posted on the platform feature explicit material, including sexual content, profanity, drugs and self-harm.

Bird argued in the lawsuit that TikTok not abiding by the age warning system violates the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.

“It’s past time for TikTok to be honest with…

Tell us about PR Dispatch

I’m Rosie, the founder of PR Dispatch – the UK’s first affordable PR membership platform for product-based businesses. I founded PR Dispatch in 2017 to give product-based businesses everything they need to pitch their brand to the UK press and get it right the first time without wasting time or money. Great brands deserve great press and it shouldn’t be reserved for the big names with big budgets. Throughout my career I’ve worked with thousands of brands and nothing makes me happier than seeing the results brands achieve after following our advice on doing their own PR.

How did you come up with the idea for the company?

I previously owned a PR agency LFA, and I began to get a problem-solving itch. I was coming across great…