Jordan will impose a temporary ban on TikTok after a police officer was killed in protests that were caught on video and uploaded to the Chinese-owned social media platform.
The country made the announcement on Friday, citing that TikTok failed to combat “misuse by its users, whether by glorifying violence, calls for chaos, promoting videos from outside the kingdom and falsifying them to influence the feelings of citizens.”
It is unclear how long the ban will be in place.
The move comes after Colonel Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police chief of Maan province, was shot in the head on duty trying to calm down riots protesting rising fuel costs.