Snapchat blocks fewer children from app than TikTok in U.K., Reuters says

Snapchat is removing dozens of children in the U.K. from its platform every month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok, Reuters’ Martin Coulter reports, citing internal data the companies shared with Britain’s Ofcom. Ahead of the country’s planned Online Safety Bill, Ofcom asked TikTok and Snapchat to disclose how many suspected users under the age of 13 they had booted from their platforms in a year, the authors says. According to the data, TikTok said that between April 2021 and April 2022, it had blocked roughly 180,000 suspected underage accounts in Britain each month, whereas Snapchat said it removed roughly 60 accounts per month, the author notes. Reference Link