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View all search resultsTikTok removes underage accounts after govt push
TikTok had deactivated around 780,000 accounts belonging to users under 16 as of Friday, marking it “the first platform” to report measurable enforcement under Indonesia's new child protection rules.
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This photograph taken on April 19, 2024, shows a man holding a smartphone displaying the logo of Chinese social media platform TikTok in an office in Paris. (AFP/Antonin Utz)
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ocial media platforms considered high-risk for children are beginning to comply with the Communications and Digital Ministry’s new child protection rules, with TikTok among the latest to fall in line.
Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said the video-based social media platform has enforced a minimum user age of 16, in line with the government’s Child Protection in Digital Space Regulation (PP Tunas).
She further revealed that TikTok had deactivated around 780,000 accounts belonging to users under the age of 16 as of April 10, marking it “the first platform” to report measurable enforcement under the regulation.
“We hope other platforms will follow and immediately report the number of [underage] accounts they have handled or taken down,” Meutya said on Tuesday during a press briefing, as quoted from the ministry’s official YouTube channel.
TikTok is the latest “high-risk” platform to comply since the regulation’s technical guidelines took effect on March 28, joining X, Bigo Live, Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
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The minister said video-sharing platform YouTube and gaming platform Roblox remain the only high-risk platforms yet to fully comply.
