Snapchat does block users from signing up with a date of birth that puts them under the age of 13. "It makes no sense that Snapchat is blocking a fraction of the number of children that TikTok is," said a source within Snapchat, speaking on condition of anonymity. Children are also more likely to set up their own private account on Snapchat, rather than use a parent's, when compared to TikTok. Recent Ofcom research suggests both apps are similarly popular with underage users. "We take these obligations seriously and every month in the UK we block and delete tens of thousands of attempts from underage users to create a Snapchat account," the Snap spokesperson said. The spokesperson declined to provide additional context or to detail specific blocking measures the company has taken. In the same period, Snapchat disclosed that it had removed approximately 60 accounts per month, or just over 700 in total.Ī Snap spokesperson told Reuters the figures misrepresented the scale of work the company did to keep under-13s off its platform. These restrictions are intended to protect the privacy and safety of young children.Īhead of Britain's planned Online Safety Bill, aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content such as child pornography, Ofcom asked TikTok and Snapchat how many suspected under-13s they had kicked off their platforms in a year.Īccording to the data seen by Reuters, TikTok told Ofcom that between April 2021 and April 2022, it had blocked an average of around 180,000 suspected underage accounts in Britain every month, or around 2 million in that 12-month period. Social media platforms such as Meta's (META.O) Instagram, ByteDance's TikTok, and Snap Inc.'s Snapchat require users to be at least 13 years old. LONDON, March 6 (Reuters) - Snapchat (SNAP.N) is kicking dozens of children in Britain off its platform each month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok, according to internal data the companies shared with Britain's media regulator Ofcom and which Reuters has seen.
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