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TikTok fires four employees for spying on US journalists by illegally accessing internal data

It seems that TikTok just can’t stay away from controversy. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company claims that the employees acted on their own accord and “misused their authority to obtain access to TikTok user data.” A report revealed that ByteDance had fired as many as four employees for illegally accessing TikTok’s internal data and spying on American journalists who were writing on TikTok, ByteDance and the company’s close ties with Beijing.