This Monday, the European Commission launched a formal investigation into the social network TikTok on suspicion of violating obligations on the protection of minors and transparency, which the platform denies.
According to the statement, the community leader suspects that the TikTok platform has violated its commitment to the protection of minors and advertising transparency in violation of the Digital Services Act.
The formal process follows a preliminary investigation and will examine whether TikTok may have violated the Digital Services Act (DAS) in areas related to the protection of minors, advertising transparency, investigator access to data, and managing the risk of addictive design. and harmful content.
The short-video social network also said in a statement that it has pioneered “features and settings designed to protect teenagers and keep children under 13 away from the platform,” stressing that it will continue to work to preserve young people are safe.
In doing so, TikTok also hopes to have “the opportunity to explain this work in detail to the European Commission.”
TikTok was designated as a very large online platform under the DAS after it reported to Brussels that it has more than 135.9 million active users in the European Union (EU), a category that binds it to a number of European Union obligations. legislation.