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U.S. Government Probing TikTok for National Security Risks: Reports

2019年11月04日 20:26

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Powerful foreign investment committee said to be examining Chinese owner Bytedance’s 2-year-old purchase of a California-based lip-sync video app

The U.S. government has launched a national security probe into Chinese tech unicorn Bytedance’s 2-year-old acquisition of a popular American lip-sync video app.

Bytedance, which CB Insights values at $75 billion, paid almost $1 billion yuan for Shanghai and California-based Musical.ly and merged it into its own social short video app TikTok.

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