Three hundred current employees at TikTok and its parent company ByteDance previously worked for Chinese state media publications, according to public employee LinkedIn profiles reviewed by Forbes.| Forbes
Some of the ads include descriptions of sexual violence, paired with images of battered women and photos of male fitness influencers, which were used without permission.| Forbes
TikTok content moderators at the third-party company Teleperformance were shocked to be shown graphic videos and images of children involved in sexual acts during training. Now, one former moderator has taken concerns about that material to the FBI.| Forbes
“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.| BuzzFeed News
TikTok is rebuilding its systems to keep US user data in the US and putting a new US-based team in control. But for now, that team reports to executives in China.| BuzzFeed News