TikTok is feeding Western teens “dumbed down” content while providing Chinese youth with educational and motivational videos, the president of the British Chambers of Commerce has claimed.
Baroness Martha Lane Fox—a former Twitter board member—said the video sharing app was “eroding ambition and motivation” by bombarding Western young people with addictive content.
According to the Telegraph, Fox said TikTok owner Bytedance pushed “maths, science and the brilliance of going into space and invention” on sister app Douyin—which targets the company’s China market.
Douyin users under the age of 14 are also shielded with strict measures to prevent them from gorging on videos….