TikTok bows to European pressure and halts reward feature on new app in France and Spain
Release time：2024-04-26 01:20:17 Source：World Wander news portal
LONDON (AP) — TikTok said Wednesday that it’s halting a feature on its new app rewarding users in Europe for watching videos, after facing pressure from regulators worried about its addictive features.
The company backed down days after the European Union warned that the TikTok Lite app might have breached the 27-nation bloc’s digital regulations when it launched earlier this month. The EU’s executive Commission threatened to order the suspension of features that pose a risk to kids.
“TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators,” it said in a post on social media platform X. “We are therefore voluntarily suspending the rewards functions in TikTok Lite while we address the concerns that they have raised.”
TikTok Lite, which was rolled out in France and Spain, is a slimmed-down version of the main TikTok app that lets users earn rewards. Points earned by watching videos, liking content and following content creators can then be exchanged for rewards including Amazon vouchers and gift cards on PayPal.
- Previous：Grant Shapps swerves questions on whether Britain could follow the US by banning Chinese
- Next：Former Labour minister Frank Field dies from cancer aged 81: Tributes pour in for 'formidable' ex
Related articles
- Jelly Roll hits the gym amid his plans to lose 250lbs
- Climate Change Commission urges govt to cut carbon credit surplus
- Alexei Navalny death: Team accuses Russia of 'hiding' his body
- Group calls on goverment to withdraw Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill
- Is this the latest Nessie sighting? Hunter spots '18ft
- Wait times to see health specialists rise, childhood immunisations fall
- Government announces animal facial eczema research fund
- New advisory groups for science and tertiary sectors
- What it's REALLY like to win the Lottery... by a couple who banked £2.2m
- Israel hits Gaza's Rafah; Hamas chief's trip raises truce hopes
- Semenyo scores to help Bournemouth beat Wolverhampton 1
- Call for schools soft drink ban renewed after government implements cellphone ban
- Israeli military says 24 soldiers killed in Gaza fighting
- NZ aid worker Andrew Bagshaw's parents want death in Ukraine recognised as war crime
- China completes selection of about 38,000 local gov't special bond projects
- Government 'looking at' mining on DOC lands
- Japan unexpectedly slips into a recession
- EDITORIAL: Reform of WTO key to regaining dispute
- With lawsuits in rearview mirror, Disney World government gets back to being boring
- Japan unexpectedly slips into a recession
Random recommendation
- Copyright © 2024 Powered by TikTok bows to European pressure and halts reward feature on new app in France and Spain ,World Wander news portal sitemap