China’s ByteDance admits using TikTok data to track journalists
Published on: Saturday, December 24, 2022
Published on: Sat, Dec 24, 2022
By: AFP
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They had hoped to identify links between staff and a Financial Times reporter and a former BuzzFeed journalist, an email from ByteDance’s general counsel Erich Andersen seen by AFP said.
BEIJING: Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media, the company admitted Friday.