TikTok

US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices citing a cybersecurity threat, will block devices with the app from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet - Reuters

The video app said it would review its policies after a 17-year-old in New Jersey who discussed Chinese detention camps was locked out of her account

TikTok: U.S. views on censorship were often overridden by Chinese bosses - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/05/inside-tiktok-culture-clash-where-us-views-about-censorship-often-were-overridden-by-chinese-bosses/

former employees who worked in the company’s U.S. offices as recently as this spring said they were instructed to follow rules set by managers at ByteDance’s Beijing headquarters, such as demoting and removing content related to social and political topics, including those censored by the Chinese government

TikTok app poses potential national security risk, says senior Democrat - Technology - The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/24/tiktok-foreign-interference-chuck-schumer-tom-cotton

TikTok reportedly censors materials deemed politically sensitive to the Chinese Communist party, including content related to the recent Hong Kong protests, as well as references to Tiananmen Square, Tibetan and Taiwanese independence, and the treatment of the Uighurs.

Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing - Technology - The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

Leak spells out how social media app advances China’s foreign policy aims

TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/

Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok