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1. • • On the face of it, the answer would appear to be “no.” It was first incorporated in California in April 2015, according to US court documents. TikTok has never existed in mainland China, though the app was available in Hong Kong until July 2020, when it pulled out shortly after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law in the city.
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   • Myth: TikTok and ByteDance are headquartered in China. Fact: TikTok, which is not available in mainland China, has established Los Angeles and Singapore as headquarters locations to meet its business needs. That is in keeping with ByteDance's approach to aligning business needs to the markets where its services operate.

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   Why is TikTok not available in China?

   • TikTok is owned by a Chinese company. So why doesn’t it exist there? Link Copied! TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the wildly popular platform, developed with homegrown Chinese technology, isn’t accessible in China.

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   Is there a TikTok app in China?

   • At the time, the app was trying to distance itself from China in the face of growing pressure from the Trump administration. In China, there is a different version of TikTok: a sister app called Douyin. It launched before TikTok and became a viral sensation in the massive mainland market.

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   Is TikTok Chinese?

   • In China, there is a different version of TikTok: a sister app called Douyin. It launched before TikTok and became a viral sensation in the massive mainland market. Its powerful algorithm became the foundation for TikTok and is key to its global success. In March 2023, CEO Chew was repeatedly pressed by US lawmakers on whether TikTok was Chinese.

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   Is TikTok a 'distributed' company?

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   Is TikTok 'in line with industry practices'?

   • TikTok says the app's data collection is "in line with industry practices". Critics frequently accuse TikTok of harvesting huge amounts of data. A cyber-security report published in July 2022 by researchers at Internet 2.0, an Australian cyber-company, is often cited as evidence.

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3. newsroom.tiktok.com › en-au › the-truth-about-tiktokThe Truth About TikTok: Separating Fact from Fiction.

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   Apr 17, 2023 · Fact: TikTok, which is not available in mainland China, has established Los Angeles and Singapore as headquarters locations to meet its business needs. That is in keeping with ByteDance's approach to aligning business needs to the markets where its services operate.

4. www.cnn.com › 2023/03/24 › techTikTok is owned by a Chinese company. So why doesn’t it exist ...

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   Mar 24, 2023 · In fact, it’s never existed there. Instead, there’s a different version of TikTok — a sister app called Douyin. Both are owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, but Douyin launched...

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   The firm insists user data has never been stored in China and is building data centres in Texas for US user data, and at sites in Europe for data from its citizens.

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   Mar 24, 2023 · TikTok is a platform for creating and sharing short videos and is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. It was started in 2016, and has become the third most popular internet service in the...

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   Apr 25, 2024 · TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance tightened its grip over its US operations over the past two years, according to company insiders, even as momentum to ban the short-video app grew in ...

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   Mar 14, 2024 · Since its inception, the TikTok platform has been intended for non-Chinese markets and is unavailable in mainland China. It pulled out of Hong Kong in 2020 when Beijing imposed a national...