TikTok stated on Wednesday it’s growing a instrument that can enable mother and father to stop their teenagers from viewing content material containing sure phrases or hashtags on the short-form video app, because the embattled firm appears to shore up its public picture.
TikTok, owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, is going through renewed scrutiny worldwide over its proximity to the Chinese authorities and safety of person knowledge.
The app, wildly well-liked amongst youthful customers, has been banned from government-owned telephones within the United States, Canada and different international locations as a consequence of safety considerations.
Like different social media apps, TikTok has additionally confronted criticism for not doing sufficient to defend teenagers from inappropriate content material.
Development of the parental management function is within the early levels and the app will seek the advice of with parenting, youth and civil society organizations to design the instrument, TikTok stated.
It additionally introduced new options to assist customers restrict the period of time they spend on the app. Accounts belonging to customers underneath 18 will routinely have a time restrict of 1 hour per day, and youths might want to enter a passcode to proceed utilizing the app, TikTok stated in a weblog submit.
If teenagers select to take away the each day restrict and scroll TikTok for greater than 100 minutes per day, the app will show a immediate encouraging them to set cut-off dates.
Parents will now additionally be capable of set customized cut-off dates for his or her teenagers’ TikTok utilization relying on the day of the week, the corporate stated.
Meanwhile, the US House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday alongside celebration traces to provide President Joe Biden the ability to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, within the newest setback for the favored video sharing web site.
Lawmakers voted 24 to 16 to approve the measure to grant the administration new powers to ban the ByteDance-owned app — which is utilized by over 100 million Americans — in addition to different apps thought-about safety dangers.
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