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Kollage: Mads D'Alterio Djervig. Originalfoto: Pexels

The minister accuses social media platforms of shirking their responsibilities by doing too little to curb illegal and violent content. TikTok says it is open to dialogue, while Meta calls the figures in a new report misleading.

TikTok keeps growing – but the number of Danish-speaking moderators has been cut in half

Kollage: Mads D'Alterio Djervig. Originalfoto: Pexels

TikTok is steadily gaining Danish users. According to the platform’s own figures, there are about 1.5 million users in Denmark.

But even as the user base grows, TikTok is making deep cuts to the people tasked with safeguarding Danes’ digital security on the platform.

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