In a press release published on X on Wednesday 24 April, the social network TikTok announced that it had suspended access to its rewards programme within the ‘TikTok Lite’ application. This was in the Commission’s sights when it opened an investigation on Monday 22 April (see EUROPE B13396A4).
The Commission suspects that the programme poses “serious risks” to its users, particularly young people, through the possibility of earning money by using the application, which could...