The Spanish government calls for the temporary closure of TikTok due to the spread of abuse towards minors.

The Spanish government has requested the Spanish Data Protection Agency to temporarily suspend TikTok due to the spread of child sexual abuse content. Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, made the request following an investigation by Maldita.es that found over a thousand videos of child sexual abuse on the platform. Rego criticized that TikTok has not presented concrete measures to protect minors and called for an urgent response. The Maldita.es study identified 1,183 videos with over 48 million views and denounced the lack of effective moderation by TikTok, which only removed 10% of the reported videos.