Taking TikTok to court. Bethenny Frankel is suing the social media platform in a class action lawsuit, claiming the site misused her image and likeness.The Real Housewives of New York City alum, 51, filed the complaint on Thursday, October 6, accusing the company of allegedly violating “her right to publicity and the unauthorized use of her image and likeness to promote and sell counterfeit products on the platform.”According to documents obtained by Us Weekly, Frankel is seeking compensation for “significant damages to her business and reputation, as well as broad changes to impose stricter regulations regarding TikTok’s advertising” after a video she created was allegedly reposted for an untrustworthy ad without her consent.
She requested a trial by jury, where the amount of damages can be officially determined.The Skinnygirl CEO, who has more than 990,000 followers on TikTok, claimed that she was alerted by fans in September that a user had edited a video of Frankel discussing a sweater she loved to instead promote an alleged counterfeit.Through her lawsuit, Frankel is urging the platform to better protect creators and their content “in any form, including, without limitation, images, videos, text, and audio, created and published on social media or other channels, from being misused and misrepresented.”While discussing her hopes for the case, the Bravo personality told The Washington Post that she wants to see TikTok make “a tangible change” in their policies. “An effort needs to be made by TikTok to protect creators and consumers,” she told the outlet. “There are people who purchased these products after they saw these ads with me in them.”She added in an additional statement: “I want to be a voice for change in the
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