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FG raises security concern over TIkTok’s contents, tax payment

The Federal Government has raised several concerns bordering on security, tax payment and general content hygiene with video-focused social networking service firm, Tik Tok.

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, who received a delegation from TIkTok in Abuja Wednesday.

stressed the need to entrench transparency, laws and regulations in social media usage to ensure a safer digital space devoid of illegalities and promoters of fake news.

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Pantami, represented by the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, said there should be consequences for anyone using social media to commit a crime.

He said the conditions Twitter agreed to before the government lifted its suspension would be extended to other social media platforms, including TikTok.

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