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TikTok owner ByteDance distributed pro-China messages to Americans, ex-employees say Website

August 29, 2022
Source: collective-news.com collective-news.com
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While TopBuzz never discussed these policies publicly, at least one former ByteDance employee who worked at TopBuzz referred to them on LinkedIn, saying he was “responsible for managing content within the platform in accordance with Chinese government policies.” The former employee declined to speak to BuzzFeed News. As of March 2020, the Intercept reported that TikTok moderators were also ordered to censor videos that harm China’s “national honor” or discuss “state organs such as the police.” At the time, TikTok spokesman Josh Gartner told the Intercept that “most” of the content moderation guidelines they reported on had been discontinued or...
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