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Hello newscasters, it's Marianne Aspring, the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent

here standing in for Adam for one more day with my partner in crime, drum roll please.

Me, Seema Katecher, UK editor for News Night. Now we're going to get straight down to it,

Marianne, because TikTok is back in the news again. It's been hitting the headlines repeatedly

over the past couple of weeks. And so we thought we'd go through some of the challenges,

posed to the video sharing app recently. So what are three of the biggest challenges being

discussed in the TikTok boardroom? Let's start off with today's news, fine, coming from the UK's

data watch shop. TikTok should have known better. TikTok should have done better. Our £12.7

million fine reflects the serious impact that their failures may have had.

Yes, so TikTok has been fined £12.7 million and it's all to do with misusing kids data. So it's

because of the amount of data it keeps about a huge number of users who are aged under 13 and who

use TikTok. TikTok says it's taken loads of measures to try and stop under 13s using the platform.

The problem is, according to the Information Commissioners Office here in the UK, it's just not

good enough and that means that TikTok is taking the data of kids of this age under 13 without

parental consent. So does this mean more trouble heading in TikTok's direction? It does. TikTok has

found itself really in the hot seat, particularly in the eyes of politicians all across the world

over the past few weeks, not just here in the UK, but also over in the US. And because it's there

that the boss of TikTok shows the chew, had to answer questions about what TikTok does with the

data and that it has about all of its users and concerns around its connections to the government

in China because it's a Chinese owned company. And let's have a listen to this exchange with

congresswoman Debbie Lesco talking about Wiga Muslims and China. My role here is to explain what

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