Social network TikTok has committed to permanently removing from the EU the feature of its new TikTok Lite app that rewards users for screen time, the European Commission announced on Monday.
“We have obtained the definitive withdrawal of the #TikTokLite rewards program which could have had very addictive consequences,” welcomed the European Commissioner for Digital Affairs, Thierry Breton. “The available brain time of young Europeans is not a bargaining chip for social networks,” he added.