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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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   Is TikTok a Chinese company?

   • Myth: TikTok's parent company, ByteDance Ltd., is Chinese owned. Fact: TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. was founded by Chinese entrepreneurs, but today, roughly sixty percent of the company is beneficially owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group.

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   Who owns TikTok's parent company?

   • Get PolitiFact in your inbox. The Chinese government “owns” TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. The U.S. House passed a bill requiring ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the company to a company outside of China. (AP) Who owns TikTok’s parent company? Despite what Brian Kilmeade says, it's not the Chinese government

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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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   Does China have a 'golden share' in TikTok?

   • According to The Wall Street Journal, ByteDance agreed in 2021 to allow the Chinese government to take a 1% ownership stake known as a “golden share” at one of its China-based subsidiaries, Beijing Douyin Information Service Co., which runs Douyin, an app available in China that’s similar to TikTok. (TikTok is not available in mainland China.)

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   Does TikTok have a global headquarters?

   • 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. ByteDance does not have a single global headquarters.

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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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   Apr 17, 2023 · Fact: TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. was founded by Chinese entrepreneurs, but today, roughly sixty percent of the company is beneficially owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group.

4. www.politifact.com › factchecks › 2024The Chinese government “owns” TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.

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   Mar 14, 2024 · The same information is on TikTok’s website. The Chinese government took a 1% ownership stake, known as a "golden share," at one of ByteDance’s China-based subsidiaries.

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   Mar 20, 2024 · China holds a 1% ownership stake in one of ByteDance’s China-based subsidiaries, Beijing Douyin Information Service Co., which runs an app in China similar to TikTok.

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   Mar 24, 2023 · Both are owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, but Douyin launched before TikTok and became a viral sensation in China. Its powerful algorithm became the foundation for TikTok and...

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   4 days ago · The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person. According to a rich list produced by the Hurun Research Institute ...

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   Mar 15, 2024 · Grilled by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in March 2023, TikTok’s Singaporean CEO Shou Zi Chew said unequivocally that ByteDance was not “an agent of China or any other country.”