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The Chinese-owned platform has some 142 million users in the EU, predominantly young Europeans, making it crucial campaigning territory for those seeking the youth vote. But some candidates are intentionally spurning the platform, amid concerns the Chinese government could snoop on sensitive data and that disinformation could skew the vote. Ursula von der Leyen, the centre-right European People Party’s lead candidate, will forgo TikTok in the run up to the vote, her campaign team confirmed last Friday, in a move designed to uphold her executive’s increasingly hawkish stance on the platform. On...
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French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech this week that he would like to see Europe create a “digital majority” of 15, meaning that before that age, parents would control access to the “digital space”. France enacted a law in July 2023 that requires online social network service providers operating in France to refuse children under 15 unless expressly authorised by one of their parents or guardians. Failure to comply with this obligation could result in the social platform being fined up to one per cent of its worldwide sales. “Does anyone send their child into the jungle at 5, 10 or...
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TikTok has said it will challenge new US legislation requiring its parent company to sell it under threat of a ban in court. The law signed this week by US President Joe Biden states that TikTok's Chinese-based parent company ByteDance has 270 days with a possible 90-day extension to divest from the app or face a ban. "This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail," TikTok said in a statement earlier this week. Should a legal challenge fail, observers say Chinese authorities...
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TikTok has voluntarily suspended the rewards functions in its TikTok Lite app in the wake of European Commission investigations, the social media announced today (24 April). The suspension will start as of today for an initial period of 60 days for new users and by the end of the week for all other users in France and Spain. The roll-out in other member states has been paused as well. "TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators. We are therefore voluntarily suspending the rewards functions in TikTok Lite while we address the concerns that they have...
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The US Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would force TikTok's parent company to sell the platform or face a ban. Congress has now sent the legislation to be signed by President Joe Biden, who said he would approve the move. The TikTok legislation was part of a larger package that included aid for Ukraine and Israel. The bill gives TikTok owner ByteDance nine months to sell the platform, with a possible three-month extension. But legal challenges could mean it could take longer. The platform is used by 170 million Americans and the bill reflects long-held fears over Chinese threats. Why...
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TikTok is subject to a second probe under the Digital Services Act (DSA) over the launch of its TikTok Lite app in France and Spain, the European Commission said today (22 April). The Commission will investigate whether TikTok’s policy is in line with the DSA and if it conducted a risk assessment prior to rolling out the functions, and whether it took measures to mitigate the risks. Through TikTok Lite, users over 18 years old can earn points under a so-called “Reward Program”, while performing certain tasks on the app, such as watching videos, liking content, following creators or inviting fr...
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German politicians are discussing whether they need to harden their stance on TikTok, a Chinese-owned social media app for short social media videos. It comes a few days after the US House of Representatives voted unanimously in favour of legislation that could force ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, to sell the app or face a complete ban from app stores in the United States. The bill still needs to be examined by the US Senate before it becomes law. Which countries have banned TikTok and why?Multiple members of a German parliamentary board that monitors intelligence services have spoken r...
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If some US lawmakers have their way, the United States and China could end up with something in common: TikTok might not be available in either country. The US House on Wednesday approved a bill requiring the Beijing-based company ByteDance to sell its subsidiary TikTok or face a nationwide ban. It's unclear if the bill will ever become law, but it reflects lawmakers' fears that the social media platform could expose Americans to Beijing's malign influences and data security risks. But while US lawmakers associate TikTok with China, the company, headquartered outside China, has strategically k...
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Former US president Donald Trump has reversed his stance on social media platform TikTok and argued that a ban would strengthen Meta’s Facebook, branding it an “enemy of the people”. TikTok is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance and regulators fear that its ownership means it could be forced by China’s government to share private user data. “Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump, who is set to become the Republican nominee in November’s presidential election, said in an interview on Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” show. I...
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US lawmakers will hold a committee hearing on a new bill that proposes to ban TikTok if the Chinese company behind the app doesn’t sell it to someone else. Congressmen Mike Gallagher, a Republican, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat, backed by a dozen other politicians, introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act earlier this week. The legislation would give ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, an ultimatum: either sell to a non-Chinese entity within 165 days or it will be prohibited from app stores and web hosting until the company complies...
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