Dara Calleary, minister of state for trade promotion, digital and company regulation, joined TikTok yesterday to officially open the new centre, which joins similar centres already established in Los Angeles, Washington DC and Singapore.

Commenting, Mr Calleary said: “The new transparency and accountability centre will undertake another important area of work for TikTok aligning with both the trust and safety and privacy hubs.

“You have had an amazing expansion over the last four years, and it is truly impressive how rapidly your Irish operations have expanded. I have no doubt the skilled team at TikTok will ensure the new transparency and accountability centre is a huge success.”

Elaine Fox, a solicitor recently appointed as head of Ireland for TikTok, added: “It’s fitting to open this space in Dublin as it really is a showcase of the work many of our highly skilled teams here do across the areas of data security, privacy and trust and safety.

“We look forward to welcoming guests from Europe and around the world, and offering them insights into how we safeguard our platform and the one billion people globally that come to it every month.”

The centre, known as DUBTAC for short, is located in The Sorting Office, which will soon be home to TikTok’s entire Ireland-based workforce.

Academics, businesses, policymakers, politicians, regulators, researchers and other experts will be able to come to DUBTAC to see how TikTok secures its users’ safety, data and privacy, as well as learning about its recommendation technology and its work to protect European users’ data.