FBI, DOJ Investigating TikTok Parent Company Over Surveillance Of Americans
Laurel Duggan March 17, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are investigating Chinese company ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, for surveilling Americans, according to Forbes.

The DOJ Fraud Section and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia subpoenaed information from the company about its employees’ efforts to access the location and other private information of American journalists through TikTok, Forbes reported, citing an anonymous source. The FBI is conducting interviews on the same subject.

ByteDance employees used TikTok data last year to track the location of journalists who were reporting on the company and gained access to their IP addresses in an attempt to see if they had been in the same location as ByteDance employees. The company has acknowledged the surveillance and condemned the employees responsible for it.

“We have strongly condemned the actions of the individuals found to have been involved, and they are no longer employed at ByteDance. Our internal investigation is still ongoing, and we will cooperate with any official investigations when brought to us,” a spokesman told Forbes.

incandescentena:
America surveilling all other countries without any one calling them out

princeade86:
they are world powerful country.

incandescentena:
China

princeade86:
what happened to China

incandescentena:
Us and it hegemony hold. China is a World super powerful country

princeade86:
during covid, how much did China donated? What is China impact in humanity lives.

incandescentena:
The west/US is simply giving back for all the nations they pillaged and stole their resources, by war or military missions or by proxy. Do you know how much oil the US stole from the middle east, Libya, DRC, Sudan, Liberia in the pass years?

princeade86:
can u hear urself? Stop hating. I even pray China should take world leader, and let see what they have to offer. That's when u will know what USA is doing.

incandescentena:
Don't get me wrong. I ain't hating please. Let me ask you..How will US Manage the rise of China as a world power, relatively not absolutely??

princeade86:
they will accept it if China capable to attain it. But China as world leader will be a disaster. Freedom that USA want everyone to have, China will draw world back to slavery. Asians country are worst.