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Executives at ByteDance-owned TikTok likely lied to Congress about the social media company’s relationship with China and how much access the communist country has to U.S. user data. When the Trump administration was actively working to ban ByteDance’s TikTok and WeChat due to national security concerns in the fall of 2020, ByteDance Global Chief Security Officer Roland Cloutier reassured Cyberscoop that “we simply don’t share data with governments, including the Chinese government.” Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, also explicitly told the Senate Commerce Committee during a hearing in October of 2021 that “we do not...
