2023-10-24 09:06:00
The company announced figures for the first time on Tuesday. In Germany there are 20.9 million monthly users, almost exactly ten times as many. The platform of the Chinese owner Bytedance is likely to score particularly well with younger people, as the Youth Internet Monitor 2023 from Saferinternet.at showed. According to this, 68 percent of eleven to 17 year olds in Austria use the video app, 80 percent of them daily. This put TikTok behind other platforms such as WhatsApp (96 percent), YouTube (94 percent) and Instagram (75 percent).
According to a TikTok survey, 64 percent of users in Germany believe that TikTok helps them to express themselves freely. 62 percent of users say that TikTok has improved their perception of other people and cultures and around half say that TikTok makes them feel part of a community of people with similar interests and values.
Proceedings once morest TikTok
However, TikTok repeatedly finds itself in the crossfire of criticism. The platform was repeatedly noticed by floods of videos containing false and disinformation. The EU Commission has therefore already initiated proceedings once morest TikTok. EU Digital Commissioner Thierry Breton had previously warned the company for “spreading illegal content” and “false information” on the platform. TikTok, for example, is countering misinformation regarding the Middle East war by setting up its own control center. Since the start of the war, hundreds of thousands of videos have been deleted and thousands of live broadcasts stopped.
There are also security concerns regarding TikTok from numerous authorities. After several states from the USA to France and the EU Commission announced a ban on TikTok use on work devices, Austria also imposed a ban on TikTok on work cell phones in the federal area. Later, several federal states followed suit. The reason for this was security gaps that allow the app “extensive access to the operating system and device,” it was said at the time.
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