TikTok to suspend TikTok Lite’s reward programme amid EU problems

TikTok to suspend TikTok Lite’s reward programme amid EU problems


This photograph taken on April 11, 2024, in Paris, reveals the emblem of the Chinese social community application TikTok Lite displayed in Apple’s Application Retail outlet. The social network TikTok, owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance, has launched a new software in France and Spain, known as TikTok Lite, which lets its people to get paid by seeing videos, it introduced on April 10, 2024. Consumers aged 18 or older can “gather points by identifying new content or finishing certain actions,” the social network explained.

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TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new application TikTok Lite’s reward programme when it is effective to address EU concerns, the corporation reported on X social media platform on Wednesday.

The European Fee had presented the ByteDance-owned organization right until these days to tackle its issues about the potentially addictive character of the reward programme for small children or face a temporary suspension of the element.



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