Kenya orders TikTok to take down ‘sexual content’ exposing minors
The report, published on Monday, said TikTok was profiting from sexual livestreams performed by Kenyan teenagers as young as 15.
The report, published on Monday, said TikTok was profiting from sexual livestreams performed by Kenyan teenagers as young as 15.
The social media platform owned by China’s ByteDance is the latest in a string of big tech names to announce major spending projects in the kingdom, after Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Bloomberg News had earlier reported that Chinese officials were considering selling the company’s US operations to Musk’s social media platform X.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Sunday dismissed TikTok’s response to the country’s ban of the platform, insisting the government action was “not a rushed reaction to a single incident”.
Romanian authorities had cried foul after far-right outsider Calin Georgescu topped the first round of presidential elections on November 24, a surprise result in the EU and NATO member bordering Ukraine.
TikTok is the equivalent of “digital fentanyl,”, one of the leading voices in Congress against China, comparing the app to the deadly opioid.
Khabane ‘Khaby’ Lame sasa ana wafuasi wengi zaidi kwenye TikTok, akiwa na wafuasi milioni 142.8 wakati wa chapisho hili.
TikTok says only accounts with at least 100,000 subscribers will be eligible for the first phase of the program.
“We’re always thinking about new ways to bring value to our community and enrich the TikTok experience. Last year, we introduced longer videos, giving our community more time to create and be entertained on TikTok,”
TikTok more than tripling the length of videos comes as YouTube and Facebook-parent Meta strive to counter the rival with short-form content options.