TikTok CEO Barbequed Over Security Concerns in Listening to With US Legislators

 TikTok CEO Barbequed Over Security Concerns in Listening to With US Legislators

TikTok previously this month said it's in beginning of developing feature to allow moms and dads obstruct their teenagers from seeing certain video clips.

HIGHLIGHTS

• TikTok CEO testified that vast bulk of TikTok users more than 18 years
• Content such as harmful challenges were restricted from TikTok
• TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese technology company

US legislators at a legislative listening to on Thursday implicated TikTok of offering hazardous content and causing "psychological distress" on young users, grilling the Chinese-owned app's CEO on the company's outsized influence on teenagers.

Agent Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, kicked off the listening to with TikTok Chief Exec Shou Zi Eat saying that within mins of producing an account on TikTok, the content formula advertises self-harm and consuming condition content, and motivates "harmful" challenges that can put kids' lives in danger.

Associate. Honest Pallone, a Democrat from New Jacket, said content on TikTok "intensified sensations of psychological stress" in children.

Eat, in his first look before Congress, testified that while the "vast bulk" of TikTok users more than the age of 18, the company has purchased measures to protect youths that use the application.

The listening to comes with a crucial minute for TikTok, as the Biden management is facing expanding stress from legislators to ban the application in the nation for nationwide security concerns. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese technology company.

Legislators quizzed Eat about whether Americans' user information could be accessed by the Chinese federal government as well as how it avoided hazardous content from getting to young users.

Associate. Bob Latta, Republican from Ohio, talked throughout the listening to of a 10-year-old woman that stifled herself doing a supposed "blackout challenge" from video clips posted on the application. Latta said TikTok should not be protected by Area 230 of the Interactions Modesty Act of 1996, a legislation that typically gives online systems resistance for content produced by users.

Eat later on said throughout the listening to that content such as harmful challenges were restricted from TikTok.

TikTok has presented more adult control devices recently, and previously this month said it remained in the beginning of developing a function that would certainly let moms and dads to obstruct their teenagers from seeing video clips which contain certain words or hashtags.