00:00 Is TikTok treating children like rabbits?
00:04 Regulators in Europe have ordered an investigation
00:07 suggesting that its algorithm promotes rabbit hole effects.
00:11 What do rabbits have to do with it?
00:14 Well, TikTok is designed to provide content
00:17 that people will watch.
00:19 It uses their viewing histories to do that.
00:22 But regulators are worried young people will delve deeper
00:26 and deeper into content like rabbits in a hole.
00:30 TikTok says it's already using, quote,
00:34 "features and settings to protect teens
00:36 and keep under 13s off the platform."
00:39 It also says it looks forward
00:42 to explaining this to officials.
00:44 But the alarm bells have been ringing for a while.
00:48 Research firm Gallup says American teens
00:51 spend one and a half hours on TikTok each day.
00:55 There's limited data for Europe,
00:57 but we know TikTok has more than 130 million users
01:01 on the continent.
01:03 The question now, just how many are behaving like rabbits?
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