SAN FRANCISCO: TikTok has stepped up its defense against US accusations that the popular video app is a national security threat, denouncing what it c...
: TikTok has stepped up its defense against US accusations that the popular video app is a national security threat, denouncing what it called"rumors and misinformation" about its links to the Chinese government.
On a web page titled"The Last Sunny Corner of the Internet," TikTok maintained it was setting the record straight about the platform. As tensions soar between the world's two biggest economies, Trump has claimed TikTok could be used by China to track the locations of federal employees, build dossiers on people for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage.
TikTok said the US action"risks undermining global businesses' trust in the United States' commitment to the rule of law, which has served as a magnet for investment and spurred decades of American economic growth." It has preliminarily approached companies including Sequoia Capital to join a bid for the app's operations in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the report said.Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday said TikTok had done everything required by the US, including hiring Americans as its top executives, hosting its servers in the US and making public its source code.
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