Yu says that the same propagandist methods ByteDance facilitated in Hong Kong could be deployed in the US, as US TikTok user data is also available to the CCP via backdoor access.

A former ByteDance executive is alleging in a California court filing that a "backdoor channel" in TikTok’s code allows the Chinese Community Party (CCP) access to user data, even if stored by a ...

China’s Communist Party had “supreme access” to all data held by TikTok’s parent company Bytedance, including on servers in the United States, a former employer who is bringing a wrongful ...

ByteDance thinks Americans are fools. The Chinese tech giant’s latest maneuver — building a “new app” to replace TikTok while keeping the same owners, same code, same data flows — represents corporate ...

In a court filing this week, the former employee of ByteDance, Yintao Yu, alleged that the CCP spied on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in 2018 by using “backdoor” access to TikTok to ...

Attempts to divest TikTok from ByteDance will inevitably become Project Texas 2.0. The CCP opposes a forced sale of TikTok, and it has the power to block a sale. In particular, it cited export ...

ByteDance allegedly allowed the CCP with backdoor access to the personal data of Hong Kong protesters. AP. When reached for comment, a ByteDance spokesperson said the company plans to ...

TikTok has over 170 million users in the U.S. and the ties between parent company ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have raised concerns that the massive social media platform could ...

After several months of negotiations involving ByteDance, prospective buyers and Vice President J.D. Vance, a deal had been reached as of Wednesday that would have seen TikTok’s American ...

Microsoft, a U.S. defense contractor, is collaborating on an artificial-intelligence project with ByteDance — the Chinese Communist Party–linked tech giant that owns TikTok.

Yu also claimed that he had observed Bytedance being “responsive to the CCP’s requests” to share, elevate or even remove content, describing Bytedance as “useful propaganda tool” for ...