Ben Serrette News Today

As TikTok gets more popular, researchers at leading academic institutions want to study what users are doing there. Publicly, the company says it’s open to this, and is partnering with academics. But researchers said so far, the video app’s rules about data are too burdensome.

The popular video site is making it difficult to gain access to its data.

TikTok is putting up obstacles to academic researchers looking to gain access to its data in order to understand the impact of the app on users.