Russian media watchdog requires TikTok to exclude military content from recommendations for minors
Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor now requires that the social media app TikTok stop showing military-oriented content to minors in their recommendations. Roskomnadzor noted that TikTok posted ‘content featuring the special military operation in Ukraine, as well as related political content targeting an audience of minors’ and expressed worry that this content is mainly anti-Russian and politically related.
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