TikTok's National Security Concerns Investigated Amid Calls for Ownership Change.
The FBI and DOJ are investigating ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, for using the app to surveil American journalists. The DOJ Criminal Division subpoenaed information from ByteDance regarding efforts by its employees to access U.S. journalists’ location information or other private user data using the TikTok app. ByteDance’s use of the app to surveil U.S. citizens was first reported by Forbes in October, and confirmed by an internal company investigation in December. The demand for divestment from TikTok marks a dramatic defeat for the app, which promised to spend $1.5 billion on a set of data sequestration plans, known as Project Texas, which it hoped would allow ByteDance to continue to own TikTok.
- The FBI And DOJ Are Investigating ByteDance's Use Of TikTok To Spy On Journalists Forbes
- TikTok Pushed by U.S. to Resolve National Security Concerns The New York Times
- Sen. Angus King: We want to get TikTok ownership into hands that 'aren't beholden' to the CCP MSNBC
- Opinion | Banning TikTok is a bad solution to the wrong problem The Washington Post
- TikTok: The clock is ticking to ban this dangerous Chinese app The Hill
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