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Chiara Castro

Chinese Party has 'supreme access' to all TikTok data, claims former employee

TikTok logo seen on mobile with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew sketch displayed on screen. On 23 March 2023 in Brussels, Belgium.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) "maintained supreme access" to all TikTok user data, according to claims from a former ByteDance employee.

Yintao “Roger” Yu also accuses TikTok's parent company of spreading China nationalist propaganda, while implementing an unlawful "worldwide scheme" to profit from competitors' content. 

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