{"id":1106613,"date":"2021-12-10T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106613"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:43:45","slug":"report-tiktok-insiders-say-communist-china-still-controls-direction-of-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-tiktok-insiders-say-communist-china-still-controls-direction-of-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: TikTok\u00a0Insiders Say Communist China Still Controls Direction of Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-tiktok-insiders-say-communist-china-still-controls-direction-of-company%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A recent report states that despite supposed efforts to distance itself from its communist China, TikTok insiders claim that the final say for the platform often comes from parent company ByteDance in Beijing. One former staffer reportedly told Business Insider that:&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s that feeling a little bit in the US where you\u2019re sort of helpless to a lot of the decisions that are made out of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tiktok-employees-say-staff-in-china-make-many-product-decisions-2021-12?r=US&amp;IR=T\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that despite TikTok\u2019s attempts to publicly distance itself from China following scrutiny over the company\u2019s relations with the Chinese government, insiders state that much of the company\u2019s direction still comes from ByteDance staff in Beijing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17833034\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TikTok-Influencers-film-video.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17833034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TikTok-Influencers-film-video.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">TikTok Influencers film video (MIGUEL MEDINA \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17550450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ByteDance-CEO-Zhang-Yiming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17550450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ByteDance-CEO-Zhang-Yiming.jpg\" alt=\"ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming (STR\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an August 2020 lawsuit, TikTok stated:&nbsp;\u201cTikTok is not and has never been offered in China,\u201d arguing that it was unfair for the Trump administration to attempt to ban the app. In November, ByteDance reorganized into six different business units, making a clear distinction between TikTok and its Chinese products.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But according to six current and former TikTok employees, the firm was still largely under the influence of ByteDance\u2019s Beijing headquarters. Four current and former staffers told Business Insider that discussions relating to TikTok\u2019s products often require calls with employees at ByteDance\u2019s China HQ and final product decisions are regularly made in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous former staffer stated:&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s that feeling a little bit in the US where you\u2019re sort of helpless to a lot of the decisions that are made out of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s employees refer to the ByteDance Beijing office and its staff as \u201cHQ\u201d according to five of the current and former staffers.&nbsp;\u201cEven our internal ticketing system will reroute questions to HQ, eliciting the response, \u2018Oh no, it went to HQ,&#8217;\u201d said one current staffer.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok staffers are often asked to join calls at late hours to accommodate the different time zones between their country and Beijing.&nbsp;\u201cAny time you have a meeting with HQ in Beijing, you were to work on their hours,\u201d a second former employee said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like the company says you have to attend these meetings all the time, but the reality is, if you\u2019re in a global role and you\u2019re not attending these meetings, then you\u2019re just not going to get a seat at the table,\u201d the first former employee said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tiktok-employees-say-staff-in-china-make-many-product-decisions-2021-12?r=US&amp;IR=T\">Business Insider here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-107 paragraph-0-2-12\"><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report states that despite supposed efforts to distance itself from its communist China, TikTok insiders claim that the final say for the platform often comes from parent company &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}