TikTok eyes greater role for youth; Plans working with academia, civil society

Social media video app, TikTok has disclosed its new plan and said it is working with academia and civil society to enhance engagement, and enrich and empower the platform very popular among youth. Chinese firm ByteDance-owned app has also reiterated the potential of artificial intelligence in showing customized contents for its users. “We look at best practices, work with academia and civil society. And therefore, partners on the platform are very important…start looking at the platform to understand, enrich and empower ourselves,”, news agency PTI quoted Subi Chaturvedi, Head of TikTok for Good as saying in a panel discussion on ‘Safer Internet Day’.