TikTok‘s effort to stave off a U.S. ban has suffered yet another setback. A former employee of TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has filed a lawsuit in the California Superior Court for San Francisco County. Among other allegations, the suit claims that representatives from the Chinese Communist Party accessed the user data of U.S. TikTok users.
The ex-ByteDance operative, Yintao “Roger” Yu, worked for the Beijing-based corporation between 2017 and 2018. In his original complaint, filed earlier this month, he claimed that he was fired because he would not comply with his employer’s “efforts to skirt legal and ethical lines.”
Yu’s original lawsuit alleges that TikTok ran a “worldwide scheme” in which employees cribbed videos from Instagram and Snapchat in order to create a library of short-form content. It also claims that ByteDance used TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin to run propaganda campaigns against Japan and Hong Kong.
The ex-ByteDance operative, Yintao “Roger” Yu, worked for the Beijing-based corporation between 2017 and 2018. In his original complaint, filed earlier this month, he claimed that he was fired because he would not comply with his employer’s “efforts to skirt legal and ethical lines.”
Yu’s original lawsuit alleges that TikTok ran a “worldwide scheme” in which employees cribbed videos from Instagram and Snapchat in order to create a library of short-form content. It also claims that ByteDance used TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin to run propaganda campaigns against Japan and Hong Kong.
- 5/15/2023
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
In TikTok’s latest Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, the platform said that it removed nearly 82 million videos between April and June 2021 for violating its guidelines and/or terms of service. That is less than 1% of the total videos uploaded to TikTok within those three months, Eric Han, TikTok’s head of U.S. safety, said in […]
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- 10/14/2021
- by James Hale
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