TikTok Is Bleeding U.S. Execs Because China Is Still Calling The Shots, Ex-Employees Say
“I’ve been in this industry for a long time. I don’t want to be told what to do.” —a former TikTok executive| Forbes
“I’ve been in this industry for a long time. I don’t want to be told what to do.” —a former TikTok executive| Forbes
Lawmakers will vote for the first time on a bill that would force a sale or ban of the hugely popular social media app.| Forbes
Other security issues at the sites have included unattended boxes of hard drives, illicit crypto mining, and a sanctioned supplier.| Forbes
A ByteDance app called Feishu that holds nearly all of TikTok’s internal communications was subject to a “wide-ranging inspection” before the CCP’s 20th National Congress last fall, documents show.| Forbes
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
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.| Forbes
The committee cited BuzzFeed News reporting that China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, had repeatedly accessed sensitive US user data.| Forbes
The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.| Forbes
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.| Forbes
There are multiple ways the U.S. government might attempt to ban TikTok over national security concerns. But TikTok will almost certainly challenge a ban in court.| Forbes
