ByteDance Investigation Finds Employees Accessed Data on TikTok Users

ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, said that an internal investigation found that employees had inappropriately obtained the data of U.S. TikTok users, including that of two reporters. Over the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists.