TikTok is subject of a European Union investigation into the protection of minors. This is the second procedure of this type under new European rules after that concerning X (formerly Twitter) opened in December.
The European Commission explained that it had opened “a formal procedure” to determine whether TikTok, owned by the Chinese group ByteDance, infringed the Digital Services Regulation (DSA) It also involves examining “the age verification tools used by TikTok to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content”