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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.
