TikTok planning to launch age-appropriate content restrictions

The restriction will help in stopping adult content from reaching underage users.

To avoid inappropriate content from reaching young users, TikTok is working on ways to rate and restrict content by age, according to the company.

TikTok, which has risen in popularity among teenagers in recent years, announced that it was conducting a limited test to see how adult-rated content could be blocked to reach accounts of younger users, either by the user or their parents/guardians.

The company, which is controlled by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, said it was based on existing content-rating standards for movies and video games.

It stated it would test a feature that would allow content creators to designate whether their content should only be seen by older users.

Since its popularity boom, TikTok has seen a massive surge of content from all genres, which also includes some inappropriate content, and since they have no restrictions, any user can access them.

Social media networks have been criticized for how they handle the safety of their younger audience. US senators have chastised Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, over its plans to launch a children’s version of Instagram.

After leaked internal documents highlighted issues about business research into Instagram’s effects on the mental health of young users, a consortium of state attorneys general launched an investigation into Meta for advertising Instagram to children despite potential dangers.