TikTok Proposes Social Media Alliance to Remove Harmful Content

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The executive insisted the platform, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is free of interference by Beijing, but regretted instances in the past where it has taken down content critical of the communist regime.

Such content included references to the plight of Uighur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang, and to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.

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"There is no political censorship of any kind," Bertram, a former Adviser to British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, told the MPs.

"I accept there are things we've got wrong, but I believe TikTok overwhelmingly is a force for good." 

(Writer & Editor: JIT/PHZ/ DL, Agence France-Presse) 

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