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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Schools are the state are present focusing connected a unsafe TikTok challenge: the Chromebook Challenge, which precocious went viral connected TikTok, not lone damages school-issued property, but could besides harm students.
In the trend, students are seen signaling themselves portion inserting items into the USB larboard of their Chromebooks. These objects tin scope from pencil leads to insubstantial clips, and this would origin the laptop to short-circuit, catching occurrence successful immoderate cases.
Some teenage students person already been arrested; the Los Angeles Times reported that a 13-year-old was arrested successful Long Beach for allegedly participating successful the Chromebook Challenge. And though determination are nary reports of students being arrested successful Fresno County for this trend, Clovis Unified says that astatine slightest 2 Chromebooks were damaged successful transportation with the situation successful the past six months.
Although Fresno Unified has not reported immoderate students engaging successful the challenge, officials accidental they person sent a connection to schools crossed the territory to guarantee folks cognize astir the "dangers and consequences" of the Chromebook Challenge.
TikTok has since blocked immoderate hunt related to the challenge; alternatively of showing videos related to the challenge, the hunt effect shows a leafage urging users not to enactment successful "harmful" and "disturbing" trends and giving them "resources" to assistance place harmful online trends.
