AsianFin—TikTok on Wednesday announced the suspension of a feature in its TikTok Lite app in France and Spain that rewards users for watching and liking videos, after the European Union launched a probe.

The popular video-sharing social media platform, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, said the suspension would remain  "while we address the concerns that they have raised."

The European Commission's top tech enforcer, Thierry Breton, said the EU investigation would continue, saying: "Our children are not guinea pigs for social media."