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TikTok Restricts Late-night Live Access For Nigerian Users

Kazeem Tunde — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:42:13 +0000

At midnight Nigerian time on Sunday, the platform sent a system notification to users stating,”LIVE⚫ Notices

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Google, Microsoft, TikTok Block 13.5m Accounts In Nigeria

Kazeem Tunde — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:39:01 +0000

Google, Microsoft, TikTok Block 13.5m Accounts In Nigeria The National Information Technology Development Agency said on Wednesday that big tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, and TikTok, deactivated more than 13.5 million accounts in 2024 as part of compliance with Nigeria’s Code of Practice for online safety. The announcement followed the submission of the 2024 […]

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Community Violations: TikTok Removes Over 3.6m Videos In Nigeria

Kazeem Tunde — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:49:06 +0000

Community Violations: TikTok Removes Over 3.6m Videos In Nigeria TikTok on Tuesday said that it has removed over 3.6 million videos in Nigeria between January and March 2025 for violating its Community Guidelines. It represented a 50 per cent increase from the previous quarter, according to TikTok’s Q1 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report. The […]

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Man Kills Daughter Over TikTok Videos

Kazeem Tunde — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:19:57 +0000

Man Kills Daughter Over TikTok Videos A father in Pakistan killed his teenage daughter after she uploaded what he considered to be inappropriate videos on the social media app TikTok, police said on Thursday. The man, said to be in his 50s, recently brought his family back from the US to settle in the […]

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U.S. Defends Law Forcing Sale Of TikTok App

Kazeem Tunde — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:54:22 +0000

U.S. Defends Law Forcing Sale Of TikTok App TikTok’s collection of user data makes it a national security threat, the US Justice Department said Friday in response to a civil suit by the Chinese-owned firm aimed at preventing the forced sale of the app. TikTok’s suit in a Washington federal court argues that a […]

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UK Fines TikTok Over Safety Data Reporting

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:42:44 +0000

UK Fines TikTok Over Safety Data Reporting British telecommunications regulator Ofcom said Wednesday it had handed video sharing platform TikTok a £1.9 million ($2.4 million) fine for failing to timely make available safety data. Ofcom criticised the platform, which is owned by Chinese group ByteDance, saying it communicated inaccurate information last year and failed […]

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EU Fines TikTok 345m Euro Over Child Data

Kazeem Tunde — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:33:03 +0000

EU Fines TikTok 345m Euro Over Child Data A European Union regulator fined a Chinese-owned social media platform, TikTok, 345 million euro over child data breaches on Friday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said in a statement that it has handed down the “administrative fine”, which is equivalent to $369 million, over the breaches it uncovered […]

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TikTok Says Half Of Americans Use Site As Ban Threat Looms

Kazeem Tunde — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:58:12 +0000

TikTok Says Half Of Americans Use Site As Ban Threat Looms By AFP TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said Tuesday that US user numbers had soared to 150 million — almost half the total population — as he prepared to fight at US Congress for the Chinese-owned site’s future. Chew will give testimony before the […]

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TikTok To Add Screen Time Limits For Young Users

Kazeem Tunde — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 19:22:51 +0000

TikTok To Add Screen Time Limits For Young Users By AFP TikTok on Wednesday said it would introduce automatic daily screen time limits of one hour for accounts belonging to under-18s, as the social media platform faces criticism over its addictiveness among young users. Teenagers will have to enter a passcode to continue watching after 60 […]

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Canadian Privacy Regulators Begin TikTok Probe

Kazeem Tunde — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:56:34 +0000

Canadian Privacy Regulators Begin TikTok Probe Canadian privacy protection regulators said Thursday that they have launched an investigation into TikTok over its use and collection of users’ personal information. The Chinese-owned platform is under growing Western scrutiny, and Canada’s move came just hours after the European Commission banned the app from all employees’ work devices […]

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