Malaysia pushes TikTok for age verification to protect minors

Malaysia has urged the video-sharing platform TikTok to implement age verification for users after summoning the firm's top management to demand faster action to curb harmful content. The effect of social media on children's mental health is a growing global concern; Australia last year banned children under 16 from using them. Malaysian Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said he was "very dissatisfied" with TikTok's efforts to curb harmful content on its platform, but that it would be allowed to work with authorities to resolve the issue. "There needs to be a mechanism for age verification ... we leave it to TikTok as well as the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission and the police to study this," he told reporters after meeting...