{"id":271,"date":"2025-09-05T21:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/?p=271"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:32:51","slug":"one-in-three-europeans-now-uses-tiktok-according-to-the-chinese-tech-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/one-in-three-europeans-now-uses-tiktok-according-to-the-chinese-tech-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"One in three Europeans now uses TikTok, according to the Chinese tech giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmf6n6b1n000t25pcacqk4sct@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/hashtag\/tiktok\/\">TikTok<\/a> has more than 200 million monthly users in Europe, or roughly one in three citizens on the continent, the short video app platform said on Friday, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmf6n9vl50008356npd97w7xn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">That is up from 175 million people last year, among users in 32 European countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/topic\/tiktok\/\">TikTok<\/a>, owned by Chinese technology behemoth ByteDance, has more than 1 billion users globally who visit monthly, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/05\/tech\/one-in-three-europeans-use-tiktok-intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a spokesperson said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmf6n9vl50009356nn248ub59@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">While the company has faced regulatory challenges worldwide, it has faced particular ire from US President Donald Trump, who is pushing for divestment of its assets there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmf6n9vl5000a356nqn1inwdo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">In Europe, TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) by its lead EU privacy regulator in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmf6n9vl5000b356n92bsoocr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">ByteDance is set to launch an employee share buyback that will value the Chinese firm at more than $330 billion, Reuters reported in late August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TikTok has more than 200 million monthly users in Europe, or roughly one in three citizens on the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tiktok","8":"tag-tiktok","9":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssstt.app\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}