UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into TikTok to determine whether the social media platform is meeting its legal duty to protect children from harmful content.
The inquiry, announced on July 16, focuses on whether TikTok is doing enough to prevent children from seeing harmful material and whether its age-checking system can reliably identify young users.
The investigation comes after Ofcom reviewed how major online platforms protect children and published reports that raised concerns about children’s experiences on TikTok.
The regulator also released a separate report on age assurance on July 15, saying that it has “serious doubts” about the effectiveness of age inference systems used by some social media companies….
