Information & Ethics committee  I'd be happy to. As I think I mentioned in my opening statement, I'm a father. We live in Oakville North—Burlington. This is something that's really important to me as my kids are coming of age and starting to explore online. I think we've outlined a few times the settings that

Information & Ethics committee  First, thank you for mentioning Corey. I know you've spoken about McMullan Appliance in the House. It's one of my favourite accounts. They've done an amazing job. It shows the global reach of TikTok. In terms of your question, I'm not familiar with that organization, but I can s

Information & Ethics committee  My understanding of Douyin—I've never used it—is that it is a similar product that ByteDance has that is specifically for the Chinese market, because TikTok is only available outside of China.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  That's a general assessment, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. It's a great question, and again I appreciate that you're asking this in terms of ensuring the safety and security of Canadians and your constituents. I will preface that I work for TikTok. I am not involved in or familiar with.... I have never used

Information & Ethics committee  The decisions are made and presented to users, and then we can see how.... Depending on how they interact with it, it will present a broad range of choices to them. If they watch a whole video, if they like it, if they interact positively with it, it will recommend more videos, n

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, I'd be happy to respond to that and to clarify that. There's been some misinformation around that. You are correct. There is a Chinese operating entity that's specifically for the Chinese market where that was the case, and my understanding is that's a local law. That ent

Information & Ethics committee  Maybe I can follow up with some more information on that, but thank you for pointing out MediaSmarts. We're very proud to be partners with them, and I'm proud of the work that I get to do with them personally. We have a number of settings that we have put in place, such as educa

Information & Ethics committee  There's a lot of research out there on the appropriate amount of time for social media use, particularly for young people. That is something they should be discussing with their parents or guardians. It may be different for every family. We take screen time use very seriously. A

Information & Ethics committee  We think this is an issue that.... Yes, it's something that all people, regardless of their age, should talk about. It's not something that's unique to TikTok. It's an industry challenge. There's a role for industry, government, civil society and non-profits to figure out how to

Information & Ethics committee  No, I would disagree with that characterization. We recommend videos to users based on what we think they're going to like and identify videos that we think they would like. David mentioned the town that you're in. Local content and locality of content is something that's importa

Information & Ethics committee  Again, if it were to be the situation where there was ridicule of or discrimination against an individual, whoever it was in the video, that would violate our community guidelines. Any user could report that video. We would review it, and we would remove it.

Information & Ethics committee  Of course, I'd be happy to share a number of items, including our community guidelines enforcement report that I mentioned earlier. I do have some of the data, if you'll allow me. In the second quarter of 2023, 885 videos that were uploaded in Canada were removed for being viol

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question. There are a few things in there I'd love to answer. We do have a number of policies. We have our community guidelines. Those are public. They're on our website. They outline what is and isn't allowed on TikTok. That's what guides our content moderati