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We banned tiktok for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was which the fact that bytedance assured Congress that the Chinese government didn't have access to tiktok data until it was leaked that their employees were using tiktok data to hunt down the sources for a journalist who said something bad about china.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64797355

Since 2020, TikTok executives have repeatedly tried to reassure people that Chinese staff cannot access the data of non-Chinese users.

But in 2022, ByteDance admitted that several of its Beijing-based employees did access the data of at least two journalists in the US and UK to track their locations and check whether they were meeting TikTok employees suspected of leaking information to the media.