Tiktok reinforces parental control over the time that minors spend on the platform

Tiktok, owned by the Chinese group bytedance, announced on Tuesday that it will allow parents in the European Union to limit the time that adolescents spend in the application.

This new functionality offers parents the possibility of directly imposing from their account a time range or a daily time limit on their teenager, through a mode called “family connection.”

Similar to what Instagram has already offered for a few months, a competitive network of the Meta American, this “out of the screen” function, which temporarily blocks access to the application for adolescents from 13 to 17 years, cannot be disabled, unless the decision is made by the adult.

In the coming weeks the application, which claims to count With more than 175 million monthly users in the EUit will also allow parents to see who their teenager follows in Tiktok, who follows, as well as the accounts he has blocked.

The social network will also launch a “meditation” functionality for children under 16.

From 10pm, the use of the application will be interrupted to offer relaxation exercises accompanied by soothing music, which can be deactivated.

In France, where Tiktok has more than 25 million monthly users, The National Assembly must vote this week about the creation of a research commission on the psychological effects of the application in minors.

The group emphasizes that it uses more than 500 moderators in the French language and more than 6,000 in other European languages.

“It’s more than all other platforms together,” said a Tiktok spokesman in a meeting with journalists in Paris.

He also indicated that between July and September 2024, moderation on the platform allowed to eliminate more than 24 million accounts in the world suspected of being managed by children under 13, the minimum age to use the application.

Besides, More than 95% of the content eliminated by moderation is eliminated in less than 24 hours, and about 90% of the videos are eliminated before generating a viewDestacó tiktok.