Albania is banning the video platform TikTok for a year after a teenager was murdered last month, authorities say, saying the app could be harmful to children.
This is reported by Reuters.
The ban will come into effect early next year.
Albanian authorities say the social network is fueling violence among young people in and outside schools. TikTok says it sees no connection between the social network and the murder.
The murder took place in November of this year. A 14-year-old student was stabbed to death by a classmate. Albanian media reported that the incident occurred after the teenagers had a fight on the social network. TikTok says neither had an account on the social network, and that another video led to the murder. However, allegedly a video of minors supporting the murder was posted on TikTok.
Recall that American content creators on TikTok have begun actively urging their followers to subscribe to their channels on alternative platforms, which are often called Instagram or YouTube. Such calls have become more frequent after a US federal appeals court ruled that TikTok may be banned in the country if it is not sold to an American company by January 19, 2025.
In early November, the Canadian government ordered the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the social network TikTok, to close its business representative office in the country.
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