TikTok to develop parental control tool to block certain videos

TikTok stated on Wednesday it’s growing a instrument that may enable mother and father 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 tech firm ByteDance, is dealing with renewed scrutiny worldwide over its proximity to the Chinese authorities and safety of person knowledge.

The app, wildly in style amongst youthful customers, has been banned from government-owned telephones within the United States, Canada and different nations on account of safety considerations.

Like different social media apps, TikTok has additionally confronted criticism for not doing sufficient to defend teenagers from inappropriate content material.

Development of the parental management function 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 stated in a weblog publish.

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 routinely have a time restrict of 1 hour per day, TikTok stated.

If teenagers select to take away the each day restrict and scroll TikTok for greater than 100 minutes per day, the app will show a immediate encouraging them to set closing dates. Parents will now additionally have the ability to set customized closing dates for his or her teenagers’ TikTok utilization relying on the day of the week, the corporate stated.

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