TikTok’s plan to pay users to watch videos has just hit a snag

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• TikTok Lite offers a rewards program that compensates users for watching videos, liking content, following creators, and inviting friends.
• The app was recently launched in France and Spain, but the European Commission is threatening to suspend the app.
• The Commission claims TikTok did not adequately respond to questions about the app’s impact on users’s mental health before releasing it in Europe.

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To foster growth in Europe, TikTok planned to release a new iOS and Android app called TikTok Lite that would compensate users for engaging with content. The app launched in France and Spain this month, but it could soon be shut down by the European Commission.

According to a report from Reuters, the European Commission claims TikTok did not provide an adequate response to questions from regulators about TikTok Lite’s impact on user mental health before launching the app. The European Commission is arguing that this violates the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires large platforms, like TikTok, to perform a risk assessment of harmful and illegal content on the platform.

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