Four former ByteDance employees say the company promoted pro-China content to Americans in its now-defunct news app TopBuzz; ByteDance denies the claims
things like videos of pandas and a CEO talking about how great it was to move his start-up to China. 3 former employees say these pieces of content were sometimes “pinned” to the top of the app feed. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Bryan Walsh / @bryanrwalsh : We probably should not be ok with this https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @alexisohanian : I warned about this years ago... c'mon, folks. https://twitter.com/... Matt Mittenthal / @mattmittenthal : “This is the first report alleging that TikTok's parent company at one point intentionally used one of its apps to distribute pro-China messages to Americans.” - @BuzzFeedNews @ebakerwhite https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... See also Mediagazer
According to former employees of TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, the company pushed pieces of pro-China content to Americans in its now-defunct news app, TopBuzz. ByteDance forcefully denies the claims. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
The former employees describe the content as “soft” — things like videos of pandas and a CEO talking about how great it was to move his start-up to China. 3 former employees say these pieces of content were sometimes “pinned” to the top of the app feed. https://www.buzzfeednews.c…
“This is the first report alleging that TikTok's parent company at one point intentionally used one of its apps to distribute pro-China messages to Americans.” - @BuzzFeedNews @ebakerwhite https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...