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- 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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- TikTok collects an 'excessive' amount of data. A TikTok spokeswoman told the BBC that the app's data collection is "In line with industry practices". Critics frequently accuse TikTok of harvesting huge amounts of data.
- TikTok could be used by the Chinese government to spy on users. TikTok's spokeswoman told the BBC that the company is fully independent and "has not provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we if asked".
- TikTok could be used as a 'brain-washing' tool. TikTok's spokeswoman said: "Our community guidelines prohibit misinformation that could cause harm to our community or the larger public, which includes engaging in co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour."
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 b.
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, [a] [3] is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. [4] It can be accessed with a smart phone app.
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Mar 24, 2023 · 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.
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