- - Beijing: According to a public employee LinkedIn profile reviewed by Forbes, three hundred current employees of TikTok and its parent company ByteDance previously worked for Chinese state media publications. Twenty-three of these profiles appear to have been created by current ByteDance directors, who manage the departments overseeing content participation, public affairs, corporate social responsibility, and “media collaboration.” Fifteen indicate that current ByteDance employees are also employed concurrently by Chinese state media entities, including Xinhua News Agency, China Radio International and China Central/China Global Television. (These organizations were among those designated by the State Department as “foreign government functionaries”...