New York state Attorney General Letitia James took aim at TikTok Tuesday in a lawsuit similar to 12 others filed across the country by attorneys general.

The 80-page complaint said TikTok’s algorithms are designed to be addictive, promote endless scrolling and feed harmful content to impressionable young users.

“I welcome the attorney general's lawsuit,” said attorney John Elmore. “It's about time that the government took action to make sure that the public is safe from the dangers of social media.”

Elmore’s office was the first in the nation to sue social media giants for feeding harmful content to young users after the 2022 Buffalo mass shooting.

“We pretty much laid the playbook for the attorney general's office to file this lawsuit against TikTok," he added.

A spokesperson for TikTok told Spectrum News 1 in a statement:

"We strongly disagree with these claims, many of which we believe to be inaccurate and misleading. We're proud of and remain deeply committed to the work we've done to protect teens and we will continue to update and improve our product. We provide robust safeguards, proactively remove suspected underage users, and have voluntarily launched safety features such as default screentime limits, family pairing, and privacy by default for minors under 16. We've endeavored to work with the Attorneys General for over two years, and it is incredibly disappointing they have taken this step rather than work with us on constructive solutions to industry-wide challenges."

Other states suing the social media platform include Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oregon, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington state and Washington, D.C.