A former TikTok employee has come forward as a whistleblower, claiming he was fired for refusing to sign off on Project Texas, a program designed to address US government security concerns. The evidence supporting the app's potential national security threat remains classified.
The United States government is currently poised to outlaw TikTok. Little of the evidence that convinced Congress the app may be a national security threat has been shared publicly, in some cases because it remains classified. But one former TikTok employee turned whistleblower, who claims to have driven key news reporting and congressional concerns about the app, has now come forward.
Zen Goziker worked at TikTok as a risk manager, a role that involved protecting the company from external security and reputational threats. In a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against TikTok's parent company ByteDance in January, he alleges he was fired in February 2022 for refusing “to sign off” on Project Texas, a $1.5 billion program that TikTok designed to assuage US government security concerns by storing American data on servers managed by Oracle. Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. He didn’t hold a senior position inside the compan
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