TikTok used to spy on journalists in the US, here’s what company says

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, accepted that it used the app to spy on the reporters to track down their sources, as per emails exchanged within the company, reports The New York Times.

TikTok’s parent company conducted an internal investigation, uncovering that four of its employees in China used the app to gather information on two accounts in the US that belonged to journalists. Meanwhile, Forbes has claimed that two of its have been the victim of this espionage. The physical movements of certain journalists, as indicated by their IP addresses, were monitored in an effort to determine if they had been near TikTok employees suspected of leaking information.