TikTok mentioned on Wednesday it’s creating a instrument that may permit dad and mom to forestall 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 well-liked amongst youthful customers, has been banned from government-owned telephones in the US, Canada and different nations because of safety considerations.
Like different social media apps, TikTok has additionally confronted criticism for not doing sufficient to defend teenagers from inappropriate content material.
Growth of the parental management characteristic is within the early phases and the app will seek the advice of with parenting, youth and civil society organizations to design the instrument, 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 teenagers 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.
Mother and father will now additionally have the ability 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 International Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday alongside occasion traces to present President Joe Biden the ability to ban Chinese language-owned social media app TikTok, within the newest setback for the favored video sharing website.
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 Individuals — in addition to different apps thought of safety dangers.
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