Reuters reported exclusively that the U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly. U.S. lawmakers have been calling in recent weeks for a national security probe into TikTok, concerned the Chinese company may be censoring politically sensitive content, and raising questions about how it stores personal data.
Reuters exclusively reports U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok
01 November 2019, 12:00 am. 1 minute
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