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TikTok temporarily suspends LIVE in indonesia

TikTok temporarily shuts down LIVE in ￰0￱ comes as marches over lawmakers’ pay and a deadly police challenge spiral into nationwide anger. TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, said the move had been made to protect users and prevent ￰1￱ suspension will take only a few days, though no firm date has been set for the feature’s ￰2￱ suspension was voluntary to keep the platform “a safe and civil place,” said a TikTok ￰3￱ LIVE streaming, creators can stream in real time to massive ￰4￱ times of political tension, it can also be used to circulate unverified claims, calls to violence, or livestreams of violent ￰5￱ company said it is taking added precautions to help secure its service and will keep removing harmful content that violates its community ￰6￱ is one of TikTok’s biggest markets worldwide, with over 100 million registered ￰7￱ company’s bet on the country has been large, in entertainment and its popular e-commerce ￰8￱ spread across provinces Indonesia’s government had initially urged social media giants Meta and TikTok to step up efforts in moderating harmful content, particularly disinformation that frequently spreads on their ￰9￱ Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) confirmed it had summoned representatives from TikTok and Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, to discuss the growing circulation of fake news and misleading ￰10￱ noted that misinformation has increasingly flourished as more people turn to social media for ￰11￱ TikTok temporarily suspending LIVE came after days of violent demonstrations in ￰12￱ erupted after members of Parliament approved higher allowances and spurned them on perks, infuriating people already struggling under the weight of a tight ￰13￱ anger grew after a motorbike taxi driver was killed when hit by a police ￰14￱ incident triggered wider ￰15￱ have been torched in Makassar, West Nusa Tenggara, Central Java, and West ￰16￱ people died in South Sulawesi after a South Sulawesi local parliament office was set on ￰17￱ sprang up as well in Bali, Surabaya, and Lombok, where police fired tear gas at the crowds.

A few protests devolved into looting rampages, stoking fears of deeper ￰18￱ Pressures Tech Giants Amid TikTok LIVE Ban Indonesia’s government has adopted a confrontational stance against social media during the ￰19￱ called executives from TikTok and Meta earlier this week and urged tougher measures to combat misinformation and incitement ￰20￱ threatened fines or suspension for companies that failed to ￰21￱ Prabowo Subianto called off a state visit to China to focus on the ￰22￱ promised to supervise the efforts to restore order ￰23￱ did not offer a specific date for the return of ￰24￱ company said it would re-evaluate when the security situation ￰25￱ say the suspension reflects the blossoming power of tech platforms in national ￰26￱ has been a place for self-expression and humor.

Still, it is also becoming home to political mobilization and the distribution of fast-paced information during ￰27￱ seen where it ￰28￱ in Cryptopolitan Research and reach crypto’s sharpest investors and builders.

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