London: The United Kingdom parliament on Wednesday closed its TikTok account after MPs expressed fear over the social media app’s possession through Chinese language mother or father company ByteDance.

“In response to Member (of Parliament) comments, we’re last the pilot UK Parliament TikTok account previous than we had deliberate,” stated a parliament spokesman.

“The account was once a pilot initiative whilst we examined the platform as some way of attaining more youthful audiences with related content material about parliament,” he added, however the account has now been locked.

The objections had been led through a gaggle of MPs sanctioned through Beijing for talking out in opposition to alleged human rights abuses.

Former Tory chief Iain Duncan Smith, a kind of sanctioned, welcomed the verdict.

“We wish to get started chatting with other folks about now not the use of TikTok,” he stated.