Government Regulations on Social Media

Tiktok is a social media application which was published in 2016 in China, as Douyin, by ByteDance and was published in 2018 in the US. ByteDance, from China, owns social media app, news platform, video editing, online English school, music streaming, video games, and eSports (Mobile Legends). The users of Tiktok in China are about 500 million while the users of Tiktok in the US is about 1 billion.

Tiktok shows a quite different regulations in China compared to the one published in the US. In China, Tiktok regulates their contets for lower aged audience such as 40 minutes per day use, only available from 10am to 6pm, and showing very specific contents through the algorithm.

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