• Lobbyists for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance have enjoyed a cozy relationship with President Joe Biden‘s White House, all while lawmakers ramp up efforts to crack down on the app over national security concerns, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
• National security experts have long sounded the alarm over TikTok, which admitted in December 2022 that ByteDance spied on American journalists. China’s government owns an at least 1% stake in the Beijing-based ByteDance, which former employees have said feeds information to the Chinese Communist Party.

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