especially among children. Education Minister Ogerta Manastirliu said they are in contact with TikTok on installing filters like parental control and the inclusion of the Albanian language in the application.

Authorities had conducted 1,300 meetings with some 65,000 parents who "recommended and were in favour of the shut down or limiting the TikTok platform," the minister said. The Cabinet initiated the move last year after a teen stabbed another teenager to death in November after a quarrel that started on TikTok. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request to comment on the government's decision.