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Albania to ban TikTok for one year, blaming it for inciting youth violence and bullying
There has been increasing concern from Albanian parents after reports of children taking knives and other objects to school to use in quarrels or cases of bullying promoted by content they see on the platform.
Albanian authorities held 1,300 meetings with teachers and parents following the death of a teenager in mid-November who was stabbed by another youth after a quarrel that allegedly started on the video hosting platform. Albania is too small a country to impose on TikTok a change of its algorithm so that it does not promote "the reproduction of the unending hell of the language of hatred, violence, bullying and so on," Rama's office wrote. "The dictatorial decision to close the social media platform TikTok is a grave act against freedom of speech and democracy," said Ina Zhupa, a lawmaker of the main opposition Democratic Party.
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