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TikTok agreed to remove a rewards program in many European countries Monday after the European Union argued that it made the social media app addictive. TikTok Lite, an app that uses less data ...

The European Union closed a case against ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok after the Chinese social media giant pulled a controversial feature that regulators warned could be addictive for children. The ...

In the first case to be closed under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the Chinese-owned company said it would indefinitely suspend the rewards programme on its “TikTok Lite ...

“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” There’s no documented evidence that the great 19 th century free thinker ...

TikTok has agreed to withdraw a rewards feature that raised concerns about its potential to encourage excessive screen time, particularly among children, the European Union’s executive ...