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A former executive at TikTok parent company ByteDance says Chinese Communist Party officials have “supreme access” to the popular social media site and use it to spread pro-Beijing propaganda.
Yintao Yu, who led ByteDance’s engineering operations in the United States until 2018, alleged in a lawsuit Friday that the company uses TikTok as a “useful propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party.” He is suing ByteDance for wrongful termination after he was fired for blowing the whistle on ByteDance’s “worldwide scheme” to steal technology from its competitors, according to the New York Times.
The lawsuit comes as the Biden administration weighs a ban on TikTok over concerns that the Chinese government can use the app to surveil Americans and to spread pro-Beijing messages.
