TikTok’s US arm joins Lantern, a cross-platform child safety initiative

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Eight months after it was spun out of TikTok, the social media platform’s U. S. unit, known as TikTok USDS Joint Venture, is joining Lantern, a cross-platform child safety program by a group of tech companies. It makes sense for TikTok US to join Lantern, given most of its competitors are already participants in the program. Through 2025, Lantern says that participant companies have shared over 2 million signals of potentially violating behavior.

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