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In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million people at the time. It wanted to test whether the safer feed was less addictive. That is according […]
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TikTok has a consistent answer to the lawsuits accusing it of harming children: settle, quietly, before a jury sees the evidence. On Monday it did so again. The company has agreed to settle three cases it was scheduled to fight in October, Reuters reported. The three were bellwethers, test cases drawn from roughly 3,300 suits […]
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On 24 July, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that the TikTok platform breached the Digital Services Act by leaving minors’ accounts open to adults, the latest escalation in a probe that has shadowed the app since 2024. The finding is narrow but pointed. Investigators concluded that TikTok’s default settings failed to keep children’s profiles private in practice, […]
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Will Farrell, the chief security officer for TikTok’s US operation, will appear before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on September 15 to answer questions about Beijing’s influence over the app, Reuters reported. He will be the first executive from the business recently sold to a group of US investors to testify since that ownership […]
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Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safety Act: whether TikTok has adequate measures to work out that a given user is a […]
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The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wednesday, as CNBC first reported. It said the plan aims to protect older […]
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TikTok is adding new ways for businesses to be discovered, from Local Feed and AI summaries to creator reviews and TikTok Shop.
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