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The decision to dismantle the building comes after engineers advised the tower "is significantly damaged", the government said.

It claims the deaths were "the foreseeable result of ByteDance's engineered addiction-by-design and programming decisions", which were "aimed at pushing children into maximizing their engagement with TikTok by any means necessary".

Report engineers recommended for the tower to be brought down - and in 2019 the government was told the tower should be taken down above the 10th floor.

"Everybody thought I was lying when I said I'd been accepted on this course. They thought I was pulling their leg, going from truck driver to space engineer!"

"I really don't like the phrase "unproven" technology, it is not representative of the status of the technology as an engineering problem," he said.