{"id":1021609,"date":"2026-07-17T07:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021609"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:29:57","slug":"uk-regulator-to-probe-tiktok-on-child-safety-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/17\/uk-regulator-to-probe-tiktok-on-child-safety-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator to probe TikTok on child safety measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s media regulator launched an investigation into TikTok on Thursday to understand whether its UK unit failed or is failing to protect children from harmful content. <\/p>\n<p>A month ago, the government imposed a blanket \u200cban on \u2060social \u2060media for users under the age of 16 and \u200bplaced restrictions on gaming and live-streaming platforms. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some \u200bmore details on the investigation:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s media regulator launched an investigation into TikTok on Thursday to understand whether its UK unit failed or is failing to protect children from harmful content. A month ago, the government imposed a blanket \u200cban on \u2060social \u2060media for users under the age of 16 and \u200bplaced restrictions on gaming and live-streaming platforms. Here are some \u200bmore details on the investigation:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021634,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021609\/revisions\/1021634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}