Former Chinese Diplomat Worked on TikTok Content Policy

A former Chinese government official decided what content should be allowed on TikTok, the Financial Times reported, citing two people close to the short-video app company. From a report: Cai Zheng ran ByteDance's global content policy team in Beijing until early this year. He'd previously worked at China's embassy in Tehran, the FT said, citing a deleted LinkedIn profile. Cai joined ByteDance in 2018 and wrote guidelines for what videos were acceptable on TikTok and other apps including Helo and Vigo Video. TikTok told FT that Cai wasn't involved in developing policies, noting that he worked on regional and local teams on localization of early content policies. ByteDance told the newspaper it was "not a consideration in hiring Zheng that his previous role was in the public sector, and there were no conversations with the government in the hiring process." The former diplomat transferred from the content policy role in January this year, the people told the paper, and his role has not since been filled.

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[Nidi62]

So what? Large number of former US government officials got golden parachutes working for American companies after they left the government jobs.

Lies. For example, Henry Kissinger and John Mattis were clearly on the board of Theranos due to their extensive experience in the biomedical field.

What's the problem?

[retiredJan]

A former diplomat is getting a job at TikTok and that's a problem because it's from China and China is bad? Look around what board-members did before the got hired and what was the reason they got that job, mostly because of their network. I see no difference here, ByteDance wanted him for his network (informly) without to answer a lot of questions as why they wanted that (insider) info.

TikTok's Owner Is 'A Mouthpiece' of the CCP

[schwit1]

Is it really news that Tik Tok and CCP are hand in glove [disrn.com]

Re: TikTok's Owner Is 'A Mouthpiece' of the CCP

[dwater]

What a load of bollocks. Many people are CPC members, and they work everywhere/anywhere. Chinese people are proud of their government and the achievements it has made. Quit with the witch hunting nonsense.

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[nick1852]

Good for you and the Chinese people. Americans are under no obligation to trade with you, to allow you to live or work in the USA and so on.

It's amazing to me that you and hackingbear shit on on the US left and right, yet whine and complain when the US doesn't do something favorable for China. If you're so great, go be awesome and ignore the US.

As a nation and people, you're either incredibly insecure or seriously have something to loose. That is your problem, but this constant whining is getting old