TikTok hired a former Chinese diplomat to run its unit deciding what gets banned, report says, while claiming to be free of influence from Beijing


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Mail Advertisement TikTok hired a former Chinese diplomat to run its unit deciding what gets banned, report says, while claiming to be free of influence from Beijing mjankowicz@businessinsider.com (Mia Jankowicz) October 5, 2020 Reuters File Photo A former diplomat for the Chinese government was head of TikTok's global content moderation team for two years, the Financial Times reported . Cai Zheng was a diplomat at the Chinese embassy in Iran prior to taking up the post at TikTok. The company has long maintained that Beijing influences its content moderation policy. The FT reported that Cai is not a Chinese Communist...