TikTok, the popular video app owned by Chinese startup ByteDance, said it would stop using China-based moderators for the work of flagging problematic TikTok content outside China, the Wall Street Journal reported. ByteDance faces pressure from some U.S. lawmakers who have raised concerns that TikTok is under the Chinese government’s influence and might censor content that Beijing disapproves...
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