TikTok owner ByteDance promoted pro-China content on news aggregator app


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TikTok p arent company ByteDance has been involved in the promotion of pro-China messaging through one of its other apps. The company allegedly used its English-language news app TopBuzz to promote pro-China messaging to Americans, according to . These details arise as the app receives attention from lawmakers over its connections to China and the Chinese Communist Party. Four former employees of ByteDance said that the company ordered them to place specific pieces of pro-China messaging into the news app, including the promotion and "pinning" of the content to the top of the app. This included subtler content such as...