TikTok, the embattled short-video app run by Chinese technology giant Bytedance Ltd., has written to Australian politicians to reassure them about the safety of user data and its independence, as concerns about the app’s Chinese ties grow. Seeking to allay worries about state interference on the app, Lee Hunter, TikTok’s general manager for Australia, wrote in the two-page letter emailed to lawmakers that he was seeking to correct the record on a “number of false claims” made about the app and that TikTok is “not aligned with any Government, political party or ideology.”
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