Parties want to get rid of TikTok in the House of Representatives

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If it is up to D66, ChristenUnie and the Party for the Animals, TikTok will be banned from the House of Representatives today. The parties call on other parliamentary factions to stop using the popular app until all security problems surrounding the platform have been resolved, they write in a letter to the House.

If it is up to D66, ChristenUnie and the Party for the Animals, TikTok will be banned from the House of Representatives today.  The parties call on other parliamentary factions to stop using the popular app until all security problems surrounding the platform have been resolved, they write in a letter to the House.
If it is up to D66, ChristenUnie and the Party for the Animals, TikTok will be banned from the House of Representatives today. The parties call on other parliamentary factions to stop using the popular app until all security problems surrounding the platform have been resolved, they write in a letter to the House. (Dijkstra BV – FD Beheer BV)

Research by BNR showed that it is possible to spread disinformation and personal information via advertisements on TikTok for a fee, and that has gone down the wrong way with several MPs. D66 MP Hind Abdulaziz-Dekker calls the revelation of BNR ‘impossible’. “It is shocking that users can get potential disinformation and hate in their timeline,” she writes in the letter to the House. “No political party should use TikTok as long as the problems continue.”

Abdulaziz-Dekker therefore believes that TikTok itself should pay more attention. ‘They also say that they have some kind of platform where they check before something like this is posted. Apparently that doesn’t happen. In any case, they should provide more transparency about this,’ she said earlier at BNR. ‘I think other social media platforms also have such a committee about a moderation team. This will soon be required by the Digital Service Act. So that is really a good thing if that is arranged. They should be more transparent about that.’

Longer under fire

TikTok has been under fire for some time due to security concerns. Last week, the European Commission banned the presence of the app on work phones, because “it would jeopardize the cybersecurity of more than 30,000 civil servants.” D66, ChristenUnie and PvdD would prefer to see a similar ban. ‘TikTok is quickly losing its ‘license to operate’ in this way and apparently our great concerns are justified. Spreading disinformation and inciting hatred does not fit into an election campaign and TikTok therefore does not fit either, “said PvdD MP Lammert van Raan.

He is supported by his ChristenUnie colleague Nico Drost, who states that the BNR investigation makes it clear that ‘our data is not safe’ and that ‘TikTok is not prepared to ward off disinformation and the spread of hate’.


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