New details on TikTok’s ties to China's government have been revealed in a report submitted to Australia’s Senate ahead of the app's CEO’s congressional testimony. The report is titled “TikTok, ByteDance, and their ties to the Chinese Communist Party.'
The new report, “TikTok, ByteDance, and their ties to the Chinese Communist Party,” was submitted to the Australian Senate’s Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media last week. It came ahead of TikTok CEO’s high-profile grilling in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.
The new report said Beijing “launched a six-year regulatory campaign to build Party control systems inside ByteDance” beginning in 2017. The CCP “commenced a program of co-option, infiltration, and legal and extra-legal coercion,” and so ByteDance “should now be viewed as a"‘hybrid’ state-private entity.”
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that ByteDance “collaborates with public security bureaus across China, including in Xinjiang where it plays an active role in disseminating the party-state’s propaganda on Xinjiang.” The assessment followed the Human Rights Watch warning in 2020 that “party committee members at ByteDance regularly gather to study President Xi Jinping’s speeches and pledge to follow the party in technological innovation.
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