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May 15, 2023

Bytedance official claims CCP interference in TikTok

The new lawsuit was filed May 1 by Charles H. Jung, principal of Nassiri & Jung LLP. Jung amended that complaint this week, with the new allegations about the Chinese Communist Party influence and the alleged stealing of intellectual property.

The former head of U.S. engineering for ByteDance Inc., the parent company of TikTok, claims in a court filing in San Francisco that he was fired because he raised concerns about the company allegedly stealing the intellectual property from competitors and proliferating propaganda favorable to the Chinese Communist Party.

The plaintiff, Yintao Yu, was told by ByteDance in November 2018 that he was fired as part of a reduction in force, his ...

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