TikTok‘s internal PR team is trying to downplay the app’s association with parent company ByteDance, according to leaked internal documents shared last month by Gizmodo . Why is ByteDance such a contentious topic? A recent report from Forbes provides one answer to that question. According to the report, 300 employees who work at ByteDance and TikTok were previously employed by state-supported Chinese media agencies. That number, which Forbes arrived at after surveying public LinkedIn profiles, includes about 50 employees who work “for or on TikTok.” The report claims that one content strategy manager at TikTok was previously employed as a...