{"id":990191,"date":"2026-02-06T08:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990191"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:36:32","slug":"albania-ends-tiktok-ban-flags-new-protective-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/albania-ends-tiktok-ban-flags-new-protective-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania ends TikTok ban, flags new &#8216;protective filters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albania has lifted its almost year-old ban on TikTok, the government announced Thursday, saying the popular video sharing app had developed &#8220;new safety mechanisms&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Access to the platform, which has more than one billion users worldwide, had been cut off in the Balkan country since March 2025, after a teenager fatally stabbed a classmate during a fight sparked by a dispute on social media. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lifting of these measures follows an institutional reassessment and the platform&#8217;s consideration of the government&#8217;s concerns,&#8221; the government&#8217;s media and information agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albania has lifted its almost year-old ban on TikTok, the government announced Thursday, saying the popular video sharing app had developed &#8220;new safety mechanisms&#8221;. Access to the platform, which has more than one billion users worldwide, had been cut off in the Balkan country since March 2025, after a teenager fatally stabbed a classmate during a fight sparked by a dispute on social media. &#8220;The lifting of these measures follows an institutional reassessment and the platform&#8217;s consideration of the government&#8217;s concerns,&#8221; the government&#8217;s media and information agency said in a statement.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990191","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=990191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}