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Leaked Document Reveals How CCP Uses ByteDance-Owned App to Spread Propaganda

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Leaked Document Reveals How CCP Uses ByteDance-Owned App to Spread Propaganda
The logo of Chinese video app TikTok outside the company's new office at the C3 campus in Culver City, Calif., on Aug. 11, 2020. CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images
Nicole Hao
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Chinese tech companies have been documented to cooperate with Chinese authorities on censoring information and pushing Beijing’s propaganda messages.

One way the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses a popular news aggregator app owned by ByteDance to promote the regime’s propaganda content to users was unveiled in an internal document recently obtained by The Epoch Times.

Nicole Hao
Nicole Hao
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Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.
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