TikTok: Governments Are Cracking Down on the Teens' Favorite Video App
A roadblock for a skyrocketing app.
- he Chinese social media app, TikTok has taken the world by storm thanks in no small part to its incredible popularity amongst teens.
- The Indian government is drafting legislation to force the micro-vlogging platform to moderate the content posted by its hundreds of millions of users, reported the Financial Times Sunday.
- The country has only ever cracked down on United States-based apps, like the messaging app WhatsApp, to halt the spread of disinformation in the past.
- This would mark the first non-U.S. app to become a target for regulation in India because officials also see it as a potential medium to disseminate fake news.