americans on tiktok tiktok ceo grilled on capitol hill lawmakers look to ban the platform. tiktok is a weapon by the chinese communist party to spy on you. first of all disagree with the characterization that is spying and warned of possible mental health impacts for kids. kids your technology is literally leading to death. tonight we ll talk to popular tiktokers about why they log on. i m asking politicians don t take away the community that we have all built and answer your questions. what data elements are being collected. teens are finding ways around all these parental controls. cnn prime time is time up for tiktok. good evening. i m abby phillip. it s one of the most popular social media apps on the planet , and it is also one of the most controversial a billion monthly active users over 150 million right here in the united states. they shoot and they share videos on tiktok for fun or they watch them and others earn entire incomes through it. so many of the nations were
from jp. he s a student from alexandria, virginia. do they realize how easy it is for kids to access and appropriate content on tiktok? why is it designed that way? alex that s a question coming from a kid himself, so he knows what he s talking about. that s right. i mean, this is a problem with all of the social media companies that have large youth populations is trying to separate out the kids from the adult content, which in some cases is explicitly allowed or allowed up to a certain limit is a real problem. we see it on instagram. we see it on twitter. we see it on snapchat. um and so i part of the problem is that we don t create communities just for kids, um and there s been a debate of whether or not it would be better for these platforms to create special kid versions, which something that s been proposed. but has that become something that they do? the chinese version of the app as we just learned in a piece earlier in the show they have for under 14 year olds. they can
realize how easy it is for kids to access and appropriate content on tiktok? why is it designed that way? alex. that s a question coming from a kid himself, so he knows what he s talking about. that s right. i mean, this is a problem with all of the social media companies that have large youth populations is trying to separate out the kids from the adult content, which in some cases is explicitly allowed or allowed up to a certain limit is a real problem. we see it on instagram. we see it on twitter. we see it on snapchat. um and so part of the problem is that we don t create communities just for kids, um and there s been a debate of whether or not it would be better for these platforms to create special kid versions, which something that s been proposed. but has that become something that they do? the chinese version of the app as we just learned in a piece earlier in the show they have for under 14 year olds. they can only watch kid videos for a limited amount of time. yeah i mean, t