TikTok warned by Pakistan telecom authority for hosting ‘immoral content’

Islamabad: Pakistan has issued a final warning to Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to clamp down on what it called “immoral, obscene and vulgar” content on the video-sharing platform.

TikTok has become a global sensation with its 15 to 60-second video clips and is hugely popular among young Pakistanis, with some users building up millions of followers.

But the app has come up against backlash in the deeply conservative Islamic country, with critics blaming it for spreading nudity and pornography.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced it was blocking another app, Bigo, and had received a number of complaints about TikTok over its “extremely negative effects on the society and the youth in particular”.