Pakistan to lift ban on social media app TikTok after it vows to moderate content

South Asia

Reuters
19 October, 2020, 04:35 pm
Last modified: 19 October, 2020, 04:38 pm
The move comes some 10 days after Pakistan blocked TikTok for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content
File Photo: TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Pakistan has decided to lift a ban on popular social media app TikTok after the company vowed to block all accounts involved in spreading "obscenity and immorality", the country's telecom authority said in a tweet on Monday.

The move comes some 10 days after Pakistan blocked TikTok for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content.

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