According to reports, Tiktok said on March 6 that it will suspend Tiktok live and new content in Russia, and other services in their applications are still available. This move is to respond to a laws approved by the Russian Parliament on Friday, which prohibits anyone from sharing false information about Russian armed forces in social platform, and the violation will face a fine of 150,000 rubles or ten Five years of imprisonment.
Millions of people pay attention to the real-time video of Tiktok, Tiktok has to handle a lot of video, including a lot of unconfirmed fake news. Video with a #ukrainewar label is close to 500 million views on Tiktok, some of which have nearly 1 million praises. Tiktok said last week that more resources have been put into more resources to monitor misleading content about war.
Tiktok explained in a blog post: “Tiktok is a platform for creativity and entertainment, but our primary task is to ensure the security of employees and users.” Tiktok will continue to assess Russia’s constant changing situation to determine when to completely restore services . In addition, Tiktok announced that the video of the media from the state control from the country, Tiktok plans to introduce “label” for some Russian official media, Today Russia (RT), there is a validated account on Tiktok, these labels will be released afterwards ” “Visible worldwide”.