Tiktok will soon be accountable to the deputies of the National Assembly. Thursday, March 13, the latter voted in session the creation of a commission of inquiry on the social network and “Psychological effects” that it produces in its minor users. Consisting of thirty parliamentarians, it has a maximum period of six months to carry out its research work and its hearings, which will ultimately have to lead to the adoption of a report submitted to the president of the National Assembly.
“The objective is doubleexplains the deputy Laure Miller (Together for the Republic), rapporteur of the transpartisan resolution proposal who led to the creation of this commission of inquiry. First: to make this observation of the direct link between the use of Tiktok and the deterioration of the mental health of our young people. And second: go further and look at which legal levers that we, French legislators, can activate to protect our children. »»
The creation of this commission of inquiry comes at a time. A week earlier, As Franceinfo revealedfour French families assigned Tiktok to court, criticizing the social network for having recommended minors videos promoting suicide, self -control or eating disorders. A procedure which completes a collective appeal launched in November, before the judicial court of Créteil, by seven other families with similar grievances. In these files, several adolescents ended them.
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