Chinese technology company ByteDance Released in 2016 TikTokhas grown in popularity in recent years. In the past period, parents have expressed their concerns about the application, which is actively used by children and young people in our country. Thereupon, it became the agenda on Twitter with the hashtag TikTok to be closed for the second time after October.
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TikTok is often the subject of controversy due to its own policies, which are sometimes initiated by users and not approved by the public. For this reason, it became the agenda on Twitter with the hashtag “Let TikTok be shut down” for the second time.
media review firm last October NewsGuard’s According to its research, the platform is not suitable for children under the age of 13. anti-vaccine and covid–19 He was making videos that contained misleading information about him. Similarly, it is stated that many research companies ignore what they say they oppose on the grounds that the platform brings more views.
However, he said that they have teams fighting against erroneous information and trends that will mislead the society in the application. ByteDanceIt is alleged that he closed his eyes in the face of high views.
from the University of Illinois Dr.. Katrine Wallace to the Insider in his interview, of TikTok He said that the teams working on the issue were acting very slowly on purpose. Allegedly, if a video is on the trends list and is watched by millions of people, even if it contains incorrect information and bad example, the application does not interfere for a long time.
On the other hand, TikTok says that it carries out sensitive studies on such issues and removes millions of videos that give false information and share prohibited content every day. But it can’t prevent some currents. For example, the “slap your teacher” trend, which started in the USA last year, was quickly adopted by people under the age of 18 all over the world.
In our country, it is estimated that the main reason for the disease that people put on the Twitter agenda is the movements and shares of some people just to be watched more. For example, as you can see in the tweet below, a person is joking in his own way and deceiving people who are waiting for the prayer to break their fast on the beach in Ramadan. It is argued that the number of such people is increasing, and therefore the platform should be closed.
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