TikTok mentioned on Wednesday it’s growing a software that can enable dad and mom 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 language tech firm ByteDance, is going through renewed scrutiny worldwide over its proximity to the Chinese language authorities and safety of consumer knowledge.
The app, wildly widespread amongst youthful customers, has been banned from government-owned telephones in america, Canada and different nations attributable to safety issues.
Like different social media apps, TikTok has additionally confronted criticism for not doing sufficient to protect teenagers from inappropriate content material.
Improvement 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 software, TikTok mentioned.
It additionally introduced new options to assist customers restrict the period of time they spend on the app. Accounts belonging to customers below 18 will robotically have a time restrict of 1 hour per day, and youths might want to enter a passcode to proceed utilizing the app, TikTok mentioned in a weblog publish.
If teenagers select to take away the day by 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.
Dad and mom will now additionally be capable to set customized cut-off dates for his or her teenagers’ TikTok utilization relying on the day of the week, the corporate mentioned.
In the meantime, the US Home Overseas Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday alongside occasion strains to present President Joe Biden the facility to ban Chinese language-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 People — in addition to different apps thought-about safety dangers.
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