TikTok must regain the trust of the European Commission if it wants to avoid sanctions.

Since Donald Trump’s witch hunt against Chinese practices, TikTok’s chances of continuing its effectiveness on American soil are decreasing day by day. An investigation published in December 2022 by the New York Times, which was suspected by the Trump administration of spying on American users on behalf of the Chinese government, dealt the final blow.

Indeed, the newspaper proved that employees monitor the activities and access the data of several journalists. This is enough to justify the desire of the American telecoms regulatory authority, the FTC, to ban TikTok from the United States.

Seduction operation for TikTok CEO with European Commission

While investigating the data processing performed by the app in Europe, TikTok’s CEO decided to go to: Seduction operation with European Commission executives. Indeed, Shou Zi Chew was visiting Brussels on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. Interview with Margrethe VestagerCommissioner for Competition, Commissioner for Values ​​and Transparency Vera Jourova and Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders.

Note that this meeting was held at the request of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to discuss sensitive topics such as “”.protection of personal data, safety of minors, transparency in paid political content, and the spread of Russian disinformation on TikTok”.

Also to read : TikTok has confirmed that your personal data has been sent to China

At the end of this interview, Vera Jourova said that TikTok is still “Make an extra effort to regain the trust of European regulators”. Targets have been set for this. First, the application must Quickly adapt to European legal requirements Strictly complying with the provisions set by the GDPR and DSA, the European regulation on digital services.

Then the social network will have to provide from here At the end of the month, a complete and detailed report of the misinformation on its platform. According to Vera Jourova’s cabinet, this is a critical point. In this regard, the CEO also admitted in the interviews “He said that non-European state actors are trying to manipulate the content of the platform for the purpose of disinformation and try to solve this problem.