300 TikTok, ByteDance employees worked for Chinese state media: Report

At least 300 employees of TikTok and its parent company ByteDance employees worked for the Chinese state media publications, and more than a dozen still do, the media reported.

LinkedIn profiles of ByteDance and TikTok employees showed them in current roles as content partnerships, strategy, policy, public affairs, monetisation and ‘media cooperation’, reports Forbes.

Profiles of 15 current ByteDance employees revealed they worked at the tech firm and state media outlets simultaneously.

“Fifteen indicate that current ByteDance employees are also concurrently employed by Chinese state media entities, including Xinhua News Agency, China Radio International and China Central/China Global Television,” the report said late on Thursday.