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European officials are threatening TikTok with massive fines and a possible forced suspension this week of parts of a new spinoff app, launched this month, that regulators allege contains addictive ...

TikTok is no stranger to safety and privacy concerns, and now, the Lite version of the app has come under fire. Mozilla, the global nonprofit that prioritizes internet safety, recently conducted a ...

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TikTok suspended a gamification feature in the European Union following an intervention by the bloc. With attention on TikTok’s growing pile of U.S. legal woes, the announcement went mostly unnoticed ...

TikTok Lite launched in France and Spain in early April. The EU swooped. Credit: Kiran Ridley / AFP via Getty Images UPDATE: Apr. 25, 2024, 11:47 a.m. GMT TikTok will voluntarily suspend TikTok Lite's ...

TikTok Lite, a low-bandwidth version of the video platform popular across Africa, Asia and Latin America, is exposing users to harmful content because of its lack of safety features compared to the ...

TikTok’s main app labels AI-generated material and warns about potentially deceptive content. A Lite version popular in the Global South, though, lacks these and other safeguards. “Labeling is a very ...

TikTok Lite previously allowed users to earn money by watching videos. However, a new EU law has ended this practice. Do you spend your free time watching videos on TikTok? Thanks to its algorithm, it ...