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Icelandic Minister Meets TikTok Over Raising Social Media Age Limit

From Morgunblaðið · () Icelandic

Translated from Icelandic, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Iceland's Minister of Education and Children, Ing Sæland, met with representatives from TikTok to discuss raising the age limit for social media use.
  • The meeting is part of the ministry's efforts to legally establish age restrictions for children on social media platforms.
  • TikTok representatives expressed willingness to cooperate with Icelandic authorities on potential age limit increases.

Inga Sæland, Iceland's Minister of Education and Children, met with representatives from the social media platform TikTok to discuss raising the minimum age for using the service in Iceland. The meeting included Kjartan Sverdrup, head of government relations and strategy for TikTok in Norway and Iceland, and Richard Collard, TikTok's head of child and youth safety policy in Europe.

The discussions are part of the ministry's ongoing work to implement legal age restrictions for children's use of social media. The talks focused on the dangers children and young people face in the digital world and how to protect them from negative influences on social media platforms.

According to a statement from the government, TikTok representatives indicated that the company is not opposed to such ideas and is prepared to collaborate with Icelandic authorities regarding potential increases to the age limit for children's social media use.

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Originally published by Morgunblaðið in Icelandic. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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