BEIJING, May 13th (TMTPOST) — Video sharing app TikTok had deleted over 500,000 Italian accounts after Italy’s data protection agency ordered the company to block users whose age it cannot verify.
The agency previously made the order in January 2021 after a 10-year-old girl from Palermo died of asphyxiation after participating in a “blackout challenge” on the social network. The order requires TikTok to block users who are under 13 years old from having access to the platform.