EU threatens to suspend TikTok Lite’s funds-for-views software over habit fears

EU threatens to suspend TikTok Lite’s funds-for-views software over habit fears


This photograph taken on April 11, 2024, in Paris, exhibits the logo of the Chinese social community application TikTok Lite displayed in Apple’s Application Keep. The social community TikTok, owned by the Chinese corporation ByteDance, has released a new software in France and Spain, termed TikTok Lite, which enables its people to get compensated by seeing video clips, it announced on April 10, 2024. Consumers aged 18 or more mature can “accumulate points by getting new information or completing selected steps,” the social network mentioned.

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The European Union on Monday opened proceedings towards ByteDance’s TikTok and threatened to suspend its newly launched TikTok Lite benefits software, where by users can get paid factors for liking information or inviting mates to the app.

The European Fee, the EU’s government arm, said TikTok experienced 24 hours to supply a chance evaluation report for TikTok Lite or face fines. The social media app was specified until finally May 3 to supply more requested details.

“Less than the Digital Services Act, on the web platforms have the duty to evaluate and deal with any possible hazards their customers may perhaps face,” EU antitrust main Margrethe Vestager mentioned in a assertion.

“So, the Fee has opened a compliance circumstance that urges TikTok to submit an evaluation and offer much more data on how it is protecting its end users from prospective risks on their platform,” she added.

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