Months before the U.S. government demanded ByteDance divest from TikTok, the Department Of Justice’s Criminal Division subpoenaed the app’s Chinese parent company, according to a source.| Forbes
India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using TikTok in 2020, but employees at the company and its parent ByteDance can still mine some of Indian users' most sensitive data.| Forbes
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.| Forbes
In 2021, TikTok became the most visited website in the world. Since then, it has led trends in American culture and commerce, and played an increasing role in civic and political discourse around the world.| Forbes
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