{"id":1169984,"date":"2021-12-29T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169984"},"modified":"2021-12-29T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:49:43","slug":"amazon-alexas-deadly-electrocution-challenge-suggestion-to-10-year-old-has-origins-in-tiktok-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-alexas-deadly-electrocution-challenge-suggestion-to-10-year-old-has-origins-in-tiktok-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Alexa&#039;s Deadly Electrocution &#039;Challenge&#039; Suggestion to 10-Year-Old Has Origins in TikTok Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-alexas-deadly-electrocution-challenge-suggestion-to-10-year-old-has-origins-in-tiktok-trend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169984&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Amazon Alexa\u2019s deadly recommendation that a 10-year-old girl touch a penny to the exposed prongs of an electrified power plug reportedly had its origins in a TikTok trend known as the \u201cpenny challenge\u201d that encouraged young people to do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported earlier, when asked for a fun challenge by the 10-year old, Alexa pulled a random example from the web: touching a penny to the exposed prongs of a phone charger while it is halfway plugged into a power outlet.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_6682794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/127gdfv-e1522698504106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6682794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/127gdfv-e1522698504106.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon Echo (AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/12\/28\/amazons-alexa-poses-deadly-challenge-to-10-year-old-girl-stick-metal-in-a-power-outlet\/\">Breitbart News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An owner of an Amazon Alexa home assistant is claiming that the device issued a sick challenge to her 10-year-old daughter. In a video posted online, when the Amazon device was asked for a \u201cchallenge,\u201d Alexa replied: \u201cThe challenge is simple: plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,\u201d tempting the child to electrocute herself.<\/p>\n<p>Indy100 reports that a woman named Kristin Livdahl recently posted a story about her Amazon Alexa home assistant to Twitter. Livdahl claimsthat when her 10-year-old daughter asked the device for \u201ca challenge\u201d to do, the device instructed her daughter to poke metal into a power outlet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The practice of sticking pennies into power outlets recently went viral on TikTok, where it became known as the \u201cpenny challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10183929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/538b8c_tiktok-video-sharing-app-has-wildly-popular-teens-paid-record-fine-in-united-e1551387021111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10183929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/538b8c_tiktok-video-sharing-app-has-wildly-popular-teens-paid-record-fine-in-united-e1551387021111.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">TikTok app fined in US for illegally gathering children\u2019s data (\u00a9 GETTY\/AFP\/File Joe Scarnici)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/article\/craziest-tiktok-challenges-so-far\/\">Via the&nbsp;<em>New York Post:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/23\/ridiculous-tiktok-penny-challenge-is-a-huge-fire-hazard\/\">This shocking fad<\/a>&nbsp;involves sliding a penny behind a partially plugged-in phone charger, as seen in multiple&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LLMgivIx7ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">viral videos<\/a>&nbsp;circulating on YouTube and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>While the prank may seem innocuous, the coin can strike the metal prongs, causing \u201csparks, electrical system damage, and in some cases, fire,\u201d warned Massachusetts Fire Marshall Peter J. Ostroskey in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jgpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Viral_Video_Advisory.pdf?utm_source=mailpoet&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=norfolk-county-fire-chiefs-association-warns-parents-of-troubling-viral-teen-video-resulting-in-fire-incidents_76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an advisory issued last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: The marshal obtained a photo of a scorched outlet in Holden reportedly caused by the viral prank. In another incident, a student at Plymouth North High School allegedly started a fire after performing the challenge in what Plymouth Schools Superintendent Dr. Gary Maestas called an \u201cirresponsible act. Fortunately, no one was injured \u2014 but the accidental arsonist was charged for the crime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The tech giant said it had updated Alexa\u2019s programming so that it no longer provides the dangerous recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomer trust is at the center of everything we do and Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers. As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it,\u201d said Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Alexa\u2019s deadly recommendation that a 10-year-old girl touch a penny to the exposed prongs of an electrified power plug reportedly had its origins in a TikTok trend known as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}