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#22511799 at 2025-02-05 03:28:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27516: Losers Keep Spamming Edition

2025.02.04 Roy from the New Federal State of China whistleblows that Liang Wenfeng, the CEO of DeepSeek, is a member of the third department of the General Staff of PLA, just like Zhang Yiming, the CEO of ByteDance, who is also from the PLA.

The Chinese Communist Party has over a hundred so-called 'startups' in Hangzhou backed by the PLA. If the United States does not take action to decouple from CCP's technology, it will cause devastating damage to the U.S. stock market.

https://x.com/NFSCSpeak/status/1886816707945144600

#20552639 at 2024-03-11 19:37:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25207: Clinton Cannibalism Faundation Edition

WSJ: Fmr Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Working With Sam Altman to Buy TikTok as U.S. Govt Threatens Ban

The US government is moving to ban TikTok over pro-Palestine content outperforming pro-Israel content and force the sale of the Chinese-owned company to a group of Zionist investors headed by former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick.

From The Wall Street Journal, "TikTok Crackdown Shifts Into Overdrive, With Sale or Shutdown on Table":
Legislation that would ban TikTok in the U.S. or force its sale is hurtling toward a vote in the House following months of behind-the-scenes efforts on Capitol Hill. The new push caught the service off-guard, ratcheting up interest from possible buyers and raising the possibility that one of the most popular apps in the country could soon be shut down.

[…] The legislation calls for Beijing-based parent ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok or face the platform being banned from app stores and web-hosting services in the U.S. ByteDance would have a little more than five months from the enactment of the bill to comply. TikTok, which is accessed by more than 170 million Americans, sees this as an effective ban, said a spokeswoman. The company says separating the U.S. portion of its app wouldn't be practical and would undercut the appeal of the content app, which is global in nature.

Already, U.S. tech and media titans are circling. In recent days, some executives have discussed buying TikTok if ByteDance agrees to sell. Bobby Kotick, the former chief executive of videogame publisher Activision, has already approached ByteDance Executive Chair Zhang Yiming to express interest, according to a person familiar with the situation. Any price tag is estimated to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Kotick is looking for partners. At a dinner at an Allen & Co. conference earlier this week, Kotick floated the idea of partnering to buy TikTok to a table of people that included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to people familiar with the situation. OpenAI could use TikTok to help train its AI models if a partner such as Kotick could raise the capital for such an acquisition.
This is an insanely authoritarian attack on free speech and the "free market" and it's being done explicitly to advance the interests of Israel, not America, the WSJ reports:
[Rep. Mike Gallagher's R-WI] efforts [to ban TikTok] appeared to stall in 2023, but were revived in part by the fallout from the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, according to people close to TikTok and people close to lawmakers. TikTok's users quickly inundated the platform with videos about the attack and Israel's war on Gaza. Some lawmakers said TikTok appeared to favor pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel content, and renewed calls to ban the app in the U.S.

TikTok's spokeswoman said that the videos that lawmakers are concerned about were created by its users, and the company argued it has been fair in moderating pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian videos.

"Oct. 7 really opened people's eyes to what's happening on TikTok" and its "differential treatment of different topics," said [Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL)], adding that the coming election also fueled concerns. "People are concerned about interference using TikTok."
There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth.

Israel demands all criticism of their genocide campaign in Gaza be censored worldwide and then South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signs a bill aimed at outlawing criticism of Jews and Israel and the US government moves to ban TikTok in one of the most authoritarian anti-First Amendment measures ever taken without a care in the world for the consequences or the Bill of Rights.

Two and a half centuries of free speech needs to come to an end because "God's chosen people" cannot be criticized.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64330

Is this why Trump is now ok with tiktok? His Jew buddies are buying it

#18577320 at 2023-03-25 13:06:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22786: US President Trump in Waco, TX RALLY DAY SOON Edition

National Geographic: TikTok Is 'Fueling Interest' in Pagan Religions

National Geographic reveals in its most recent issue that the Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app is on the front lines promoting pagan religions such as Wicca and druidism.

"Paganism is on the rise," National Geographic notes approvingly, and TikTok "is fueling interest in this spiritual movement."

Recently, "a resurgence of interest in Pagan practices - crystals and tarot cards, astrology, and herbal magic - has brought Paganism from the fringes back to the center of pop culture, or at least to the top of your TikTok feed," the magazine declares.

Specifically, Tiktok has been credited with helping to popularize witchcraft through its #WitchTok hashtag, employed by a community of users to share content related to witchcraft, including spellcasting, divination, and ritual practices.

Some users in the #WitchTok community identify as witches, while others are simply interested in exploring and learning about these practices.

In its article, National Geographic goes on to assert that some 1.5 million people in the United States identify as pagans, up from just 134,000 in 2001.

According to Helen Berger, an author and sociologist of contemporary paganism and witchcraft, growth in paganism is linked to female empowerment, the gay rights movement, the climate crisis, and a desire for a more "life-affirming religion."

The trend in paganism is also tied to the environmentalist movement, since pagans view the natural world as sacred, and Earth Day is celebrated as a pagan holiday, along with the winter and midsummer solstice, the article notes.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese multinational internet technology company founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012 and headquartered in Beijing. Besides TikTok, ByteDance also owns other popular apps such as Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok), Toutiao (a news and information platform), and Xigua Video (a short-form video platform).

TikTok has been tagged by some U.S. policymakers and experts as a potential risk to national security due to its Chinese ownership and data privacy issues. The concerns stem from the fact that TikTok's parent company could be compelled by the communist Chinese government to hand over user data or censor content that is deemed objectionable by Chinese authorities.

In response to these concerns, the U.S. government has taken several actions, including seeking to ban the use of TikTok by government employees and military personnel and seeking to force the sale of TikTok's U.S. operations to an American company.

Along with paganism, TikTok has been accused of actively promoting suicide videos for children as young as 13 years old.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/25/national-geographic-tiktok-is-fueling-interest-pagan-religions/

#17905750 at 2022-12-08 05:23:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21943: GRAB A SHOVEL Edition

>>17905211

FOX Business
"TikTok is owned by Beijing based technology company ByteDance, which was founded in 2012 by Chinese billionaire Zhang Yiming."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/who-owns-tiktok-and-why-is-the-app-considered-a-national-security-threat

#17420292 at 2022-08-20 21:05:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21350: Anons Activated? EDITION

Joe Biden Enlists China Owned TikTok to Partner with Federal Voting Assistance Program in 2022 Midterm Elections

It is well-known TikTok is owned by Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, which was founded in 2012 by Chinese billionaire Zhang Yiming.

For this reason, President Trump announced he was going to ban TikTok.

Trump wisely issued three Executive Orders banning American businesses from working with TikTok (or WeChat).

President Trump did not allow any branch of the Federal government to use the CCP's TikTok.

Joe Biden revoked President Trump's TikTok Executive Orders in June of 2021.

Even the head of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requested Apple and Google in June to remove TikTok from their app stores due to 'serious national security threats' posed by the said mobile app, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.

In a letter dated June 24, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr told Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores as it "harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data" from its American users.

Now this...
Joe Biden just welcomed TikTok into a formal partnership with the Federal Voting Assistance Program, a U.S. government agency set up to help overseas voters in the upcoming US midterm elections.

TikTok just launched their U.S. "Midterms Election Center".

Users of their App will be fed "election information", not to be confused with what the CCP labels "Election Misinformation" in 40 languages and hopefully English is one of these. Among other things, the CCP's TikTok will instruct people here on how to vote by mail in their respective States.

You simply cannot make this up.

"We believe the world will be a better place if every citizen has access to accurate, unbiased and non-partisan election information - who is on the ballot and what they stand for - so they can make informed decisions about their vote. We are pleased to work with TikTok to help their community not only understand the candidates and their positions but also to empower them to feel confident when they cast their ballot." - Leslie Graves, Ballotpedia Founder and CEO.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/exclusive-joe-biden-enlists-china-owned-tiktok-partner-federal-voting-assistance-program-2022-midterm-elections/

#17420181 at 2022-08-20 20:35:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21349: EBAKE EDITION

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/exclusive-joe-biden-enlists-china-owned-tiktok-partner-federal-voting-assistance-program-2022-midterm-elections/

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden Enlists China Owned TikTok to Partner with Federal Voting Assistance Program in 2022 Midterm Elections

It is well-known TikTok is owned by Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, which was founded in 2012 by Chinese billionaire Zhang Yiming.

For this reason, President Trump announced he was going to ban TikTok.

Trump wisely issued three Executive Orders banning American businesses from working with TikTok (or WeChat).

President Trump did not allow any branch of the Federal government to use the CCP's TikTok.

Users of their App will be fed "election information", not to be confused with what the CCP labels "Election Misinformation" in 40 languages and hopefully English is one of these. Among other things, the CCP's TikTok will instruct people here on how to vote by mail in their respective States.

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You simply cannot make this up.

"We believe the world will be a better place if every citizen has access to accurate, unbiased and non-partisan election information - who is on the ballot and what they stand for - so they can make informed decisions about their vote. We are pleased to work with TikTok to help their community not only understand the candidates and their positions but also to empower them to feel confident when they cast their ballot." - Leslie Graves, Ballotpedia Founder and CEO.

#16158696 at 2022-04-26 19:51:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20438: It's All About The Primaries/Midterm Red Wave, WINNING Edition

The Very Richest Owning Media Companies is the Rule Not an Exception $TWTR $FB

As a service to those who have outrage-induced amnesia or to those who are just ignorant of facts, I will remind everyone that the very richest owning media companies is the rule. Elon Musk, the World's wealthiest owning media company Twitter will not be an exception.

We can go down a partial list.

Charles Ergen is worth about $10 billion and is the co-founder and Chairman of the satellite communications and TV Companies, Echostar and Direct TV.
Robin Li is the CEO and co-founder of Chinese search company Baidu.
Rupert Murdoch is the owner of a media empire that includes Fox News, The Times of London, The New York Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch is worth about $21 billion.
Zhang Yiming founded and owns a lot of Tik tok. His net worth is about $44 billion. The people get richer going down this list.
Jack Ma owns a lot of Alibaba. Alibaba owns a lot of social media site Weibo and video platform Bilibili.
Ma Huateng owns a lot of Tencent. Tencent owns WeChat and the messaging service QQ.
David Thomson owns the publishing and media conglomerate
Thomson Reuters. Reuters has the newswire that provides articles to most of the newspapers.
Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook which also has WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
Carlos Slim Helu is Mexico's richest man and owns 17% stake of The New York Times.
Michael Bloomberg owns Bloomberg.com and Business Week.
Warren Buffett has a big ownership stake in Verizon Communications. Verizon Media runs digital brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch, and AOL. . . . . .

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/04/the-very-richest-owning-media-companies-is-the-rule-not-the-exception.html#more-175597

#16102276 at 2022-04-18 23:03:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20368: EBake from Mariupol

17 Apr, 2022 13:48
Former fishing village in China has more billionaires than New York
Shenzhen recently kicked The Big Apple down a notch

China now hosts three cities with the greatest number of billionaires in the world, data from Global Rich List, an annual ranking prepared by the Shanghai-based research firm Hurun Report, shows.

The greatest number of billionaires - 144 - live in Beijing, followed by Shanghai with 121. New York used to occupy the third spot with 110, but was recently outdone by Shenzhen, a former fishing village turned China's Silicon Valley, with 113 of the globe's most wealthy. The city has been basking in a growing concentration of wealth, adding eight billionaires to its list since last year.

According to Heng Chen, an associate professor of economics at the University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen's rise stemmed from its efforts to make the city welcoming to businesses, for instance, by offering tax breaks to high-tech companies.

"The structure of the population is still very young compared to other super cities or first-tier cities in China, so that's one of the reasons why it's a very attractive place," he said, adding that Shenzhen authorities "commit a lot of financial resources to attract top talents from the rest of the world."

Shenzhen started growing rapidly back in 1980, after it was granted the rights of China's first special economic zone, which allowed the city to attract foreign investment. As a result, its GDP grew from less than $28 million to roughly $475 billion in the last 4 decades.

The city hosts a number of China's major tech firms, including Huawei and Tencent, which analysts say, draws other big names. In 2021, some 2,500 new high-tech companies were set up in Shenzhen, making their total around 17,000, according to local government data.

Hurun Report says there were 3,381 billionaires in the world as of January 14, 153 more than the previous year, with 1,133 of them living in China. Zhong Shanshan, the founder of beverage company Nongfu Spring, is China's richest person with a net worth of $72 billion. ByteDance (TikTok owner) founder Zhang Yiming, is second with $54 billion, and Zeng Yuqun, head of electric-vehicle battery maker CATL is third with $53 billion.

However, there are no Chinese billionaires in the global top 10 list, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with a net worth of more than $200 billion remains the world's richest person.

https://www.rt.com/business/553679-shenzhen-china-billionaires-number/

#13864853 at 2021-06-09 17:43:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17552: Who's Running The Show? Edition

TikTok Global Ops Chief Is Former Chinese Communist Party Diplomat.

TikTok's Global Operations Manager is a former Chinese Communist Party diplomat who served in the regime's Ministry of Culture and Tourism and embassies.

Tamer Tang identifies himself as TikTok's Global Operations Manager, a position he's held since August 2018, on LinkedIn. He was previously a direct employee of the Chinese Communist Party, serving as an attaché at China's Egyptian Embassy from 2015 to 2018 and a secretary at the regime's Ministry of Tourism and Culture from 2014 to 2015.

TikTok hired Tang - who counts no other employers besides the Chinese Communist Party - immediately after he departed the Chinese Embassy in Egypt.

This connection, unearthed by The National Pulse, follows reporting on TikTok hiring a Tehran-based Chinese Communist Party diplomat to regulate the app's content in 2020.

These revelations come as no surprise: the app censors content that undermines Chinese Communist Party narratives, and its founder has pledged to use his platform to "promote socialist core values" and devotion to the Chinese government.

After one of his apps was banned by the Chinese government, former TikTok CEO Zhang Yiming promised that his future endeavors - such as TikTok - would "integrate the right values into technology and products." To do so, his first pledge was to "strengthen party building" by "enhancing education of all the staff on the four consciousness, socialist core values, public opinion guidance, as well as laws and regulations" along with "further deepening cooperation with authoritative media, improving distribution of authoritative media content, and ensuring the effective dissemination of authoritative voices."

Zhang also promised to "set up an expert group on content supervision" with "National Party Congress representatives and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference members" in attendance.

The company also admits to granting priority to Chinese Communist Party members in their hiring process.

In a job posting for a "content review editor," ByteDance declared "Communist Party members would be considered first" and described its ideal employee as someone who "loves reading news, cares about current affairs, and has good political sensitivity and judgment."

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/tiktok-global-ops-chief-is-former-ccp-diplomat/

#13710877 at 2021-05-20 17:21:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17360: Thanks for Collecting Those Notables Rodent Edition

CEO Of TikTok-Owner ByteDance Steps Down After Facing Backlash In China

Zhang Yiming, the mysterious and youthful ByteDance founder who has been the focus of intense media hype in the US, is stepping down from his role atop the Chinese owner of TikTok and its Chinese counterpart, Douyin. Zhang broke the news of his departure in a letter to ByteDance's employees posted on the company's website.

Zhang's co-founder and head of human resources Liang Rubo will take over and lead the company through its expected IPO. It's unclear whether Zhang will continue on in his role as chairman of the company's board.

His departure comes after Chinese regulators ordered more than 30 domestic Internet companies, including ByteDance to abide by more stringent rules governing fair competition and consumer protection, as Beijing couches the tech crackdown - ultimately an issue of economic control - as an anti-trust effort.

As an executive, Zhang is known for rejecting the typically rigid hierarchical structure of Chinese companies with a more horizontal approach, whereby formalities are eschewed and workers are seen as partners working to solve common problems. The approach is intended to ensure the firm never loses the "agility" of a startup. LIang, who was worked with Zhang for years, founded another company with him before starting ByteDance.

As the world wondered about the circumstances of his departure, the FT speculated that the removal of 38-year-old Zhang might be tied to Beijing's crackdown on China's tech titans, the same campaign that led to the disappearance of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, an executive with whom Zhang is often compared.

Zhang founded ByteDance almost 10 years ago and steered the Beijing-based company to create TikTok and Douyin out of acquisitions of popular platforms like Music.ly, His departure comes just as the company is reportedly mulling an IPO, as it endures non-stop pitches from bankers. The company is estimated to have a valuation of $200 billion, making it the world's most highly valued private startup.

At one point in the letter, Zhang joked about handing the reins to his college roommate: "I'm not very social, preferring solitary activities like being online, reading, listening to music, and contemplating what may be possible," he quipped.

Despite his success, Zhang has never been popular among patriotic Chinese, who see him as trying to abandon the company's "Chinese identity" in order to succeed in the West. The NYT has called ByteDance China's only "truly global" company. The company has faced boycotts in China and other issues.

We suspect this won't be the last we hear about Beijing's push to bring the company to heel, especially with a potential IPO - or perhaps even the long-discussed deal with Oracle - on the horizon.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ceo-tiktok-owner-bytedance-steps-down-after-facing-backlash-china

#13707506 at 2021-05-20 05:18:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17356: Comfefe Edition

Bad Bad China Man

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/technology/bytedance-tiktok-Zhang-Yiming-resign.html

#12446121 at 2021-01-10 17:36:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15889: Ebake Baker Step Up Edition

'It needs to stop': Candace Owens suing Facebook fact-checker 'funded by arm of Communist Party of China'

'This is insanity. It's un-American. It's dangerous.'

There has been a lot of talk about big tech censorship following the permanent Twitter ban of President Donald Trump and the loss of thousands of conservative voices during the subsequent "Twitter purge." While many social media users are looking for new apps to migrate to that are more friendly to free speech, Candace Owens doesn't appear to be going anywhere. Instead, she is fighting back against social media censorship.

In November, Owens announced that she was launching a lawsuit against Facebook's fact-checkers. "It is time to fact-check the fact-checkers," Owens declared.

Ownes alleged that the fact-checkers are "activists for the left that shut down your speech if they don't like it." The conservative firebrand claimed her Facebook page was unfairly demonetized, and was she was suing the fact-checkers for defamation.

In less than two weeks after announcing the lawsuit, one of Facebook's third-party fact-checkers was forced to issue a correction. Politifact, one of Facebook's biggest fact-checkers, had to retract a "false" rating it labeled one of Candace's posts about Joe Biden.

Owens delivered an update on her fight against big tech censorship on Saturday. The political and cultural commentator released a new video on Saturday, where she announced a new target that she has set her sights on.

"Well, I'm suing a site called 'Lead Stories," Owens said in the video. "Lead Stories is run by a former CNN employee of 26 years, who makes a living cannibalizing and slandering conservative content and creators."

"His website has published disputed fake news stories, including one that went after my content personally, so I'm going after him…personally," Candace said.

"Who funds Lead Stories? According to their own masthead, Lead Stories is funded by Facebook and Google, along with ByteDance," Owens explained. "And what is ByteDance? It's a Beijing-based company that owns the TikTok spyware app. Our own Justice Department says the company is a 'national security threat and compromised by the Communist Party of China.'"

"Facebook then is paying for fact-checkers funded by an arm of the Communist Party of China to censor my content, here, in America. The Communist Party of China had more say over my content than the First Amendment," she added. "This is insanity. It's un-American. It's dangerous. And it needs to stop. This is why I am fighting."

Owens launched the Fact-Check Zuck site for her legal battle against Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Everyone please take the time to watch this video and to SHARE it. It has important information regarding these "fa... https://t.co/Y6C0WCERN8
- Candace Owens (@Candace Owens)1610219504.0

In September, Justice Department lawyers said ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming has made public statements showing he is "committed to promoting" the agenda of the Chinese Communist Party, as reported by NPR.

The White House recognized ByteDance as a potential security risk because of CCP ties in August:

TikTok, a video-sharing mobile application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., has reportedly been downloaded over 175 million times in the United States and over one billion times globally. TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories. This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans' personal and proprietary information - potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage.

Trump threatened to ban ByteDance's TikTok app in September, but the parties involved reached a deal a month later.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/candace-ownes-lawsuit-facebook-factcheckers

#10729619 at 2020-09-21 07:11:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13732: MOP Edition

Bytedance says it will own 80% of TikTok Global contradicting Trump's claims
Shortly after President Donald Trump "gave his blessing" to TikTok's U.S. sale, he claimed the deal completely addresses his administration's national security concerns and "has nothing to do with China." However, a new statement released by Bytedance, the Chinese startup that owns TikTok, (via CNBC) appears to contradict Trump's claims.

Bytedance says it will retain a substantial 80 percent stake in TikTok Global, a new subsidiary of the video app for the U.S. market in which both Oracle and Walmart will also be minority holders.

"It'll be a brand new company. It will have nothing to do with any outside land, any outside country, it will have nothing to do with China," Trump said, pronouncing the agreement a success on Saturday, 19th September.

Plus, Bytedance's founder and CEO, Zhang Yiming will be included in the border of directors of TikTok Global - alongside other members such as the CEO of Walmart.

A day later on Sunday, 20th September, Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, in an interview, claimed the new TikTok subsidiary will be "controlled by Americans" and Bytedance will remain a "passive shareholder" with "no access to the company, no decision-making authority" and without the "ability to peer into what they're doing."

Bytedance's latest statement also sheds light on previously fuzzy aspects of the deal. It added that the $5 billion figure Trump quoted that TikTok will have to pay in "new tax dollars to the U.S. Treasury" is merely a "forecast" of corporate taxes and the exact amount will be determined based on TikTok Global's development.

As rumored earlier, Bytedance won't be sharing its algorithms and recommendation engine - that powers the TikTok feed - with Oracle. Instead, in the statement, it said Oracle will have the authority to conduct security checks on TikTok's source code in the United States. Examining the source code of any digital service is a common practice for reviewing its security and data privacy protections. Last month, in an 11th-hour twist, China updated its list of technologies that are subject to export restrictions to add "recommendation of personalized information services based on data."

We've reached out to Bytedance and the Trump Administration for further comment and we'll update the story when we hear back.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/bytedance-china-ownership-tiktok-global-trump-claim/

#10692930 at 2020-09-18 12:34:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13684: Silent Running Through 4AM Talking Points Edition

>>10692915
Interesting connection. Tictok these people are sick.
Here is another one. BytDance. They Bite that has no cure?

Were [THEY] using Tictok for their comms, before it launched here? And did they only launch it here, to become popular, so the Outrage by users could help them fight being shut down? How many children did they capture in "Cuties" type videos, while trying to mimic the older sluts?

TikTok, known in China as Douyin (Chinese: ??; pinyin: D?uy?n), is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance,[5] a Beijing-based Internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming. It is used to create short music, lip-sync, dance, comedy and talent videos of 3 to 15 seconds,[6][7] and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds.[8] ByteDance first launched Douyin for the Chinese market in September 2016. Later, TikTok was launched in 2017 for iOS and Android in most markets outside of mainland China; however, it only became available worldwide, including the United States, after merging with another Chinese social media service Musical.ly on 2 August 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#:~:text=Later%2C%20TikTok%20was%20launched%20in,ly%20on%202%20August%202018.

#10441648 at 2020-08-27 20:28:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13362: Eyeballin Friday From Thursday hmmmmmm..........Int'l Dateline? Edition

Microsoft & Walmart Join Forces In Bid To Buy TikTok

Update (1450ET): More than an hour has passed without any new TikTok suitors being announced? What a surprise. Of course, the notion that Wal-Mart is going after TikTok seems especially bizarre when one considers that the retailer is supposedly in the process of selling off business lines to focus on the "core business". On Thursday afternoon, the company announced plans to sell off two more non-core brands, Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, Bloomberg reported.

Update (1230ET): The FT is reporting that Microsoft and Wal-Mart have officially joined forces in their bid for TikTok. The biggest brick-and-mortar retailer in the US said in a statement that its partnership with Microsoft makes buying the social media breakout star a reasonable proposal. "We believe a potential relationship with TikTok US in partnership with Microsoft could add this key functionality and provide Walmart with an important way for us to reach and serve omnichannel customers as well as grow our third-party marketplace and advertising businesses," Walmart said in statement. "We are confident that a Walmart and Microsoft partnership would meet both the expectations of US TikTok users while satisfying the concerns of US government regulators." Meanwhile, ByteDance's founder and chief executive Zhang Yiming told WSJ and others that he is "moving quickly to find a resolution ot the issues that we face globally, particularly in the US and India" amid rumors that he is being sidelined in the deal talks. This all comes from a lengthy WSJ profile of the founder/CEO, which also recounts how Zhang first established a relationship with Microsoft, a relationship that eventually evolved into the ongoing talks to buy the company. With SoftBank now out of the picture, the other known bidders have been reduced to Oracle, and a group of US investors led by VC firms General Atlantic and Sequoia. Oracle is already reportedly preparing a $20 billion cash and stock bid, which looks a little low relative to other reported valuations that have put TikTok's US-focused business (along with its business in Australia, Canada and New Zealand) closer to $26 billion, or even $30 billion. $WMT's decision to partner with Microsoft shows it doesn't want to be distracted from its core business, said analyst Neil Saunders, managing director of the GlobalData Retail consultancy. "As large and competent as it is, Walmart is not primarily in the technology business…This is one reason why a potential partnership with Microsoft makes good sense." Still, the two companies seem like a fairly odd couple. And with two other strong bidders in the race, and the startup founder's unenthusiastic remarks about the prospects for a deal, it's possible this saga isn't anywhere close to over, despite reports that the first bids could be announced by the end of the week. Almost two weeks ago, Trump ordered ByteDance to sell the US operations within 90 days, or face being barred from operating in the US, similar to how the app is barred in India. We'd rather not delve into speculating about TikTok's operations, or its incipient ability to squeeze revenue out of its vast user base, but as the FT noted in a column earlier this month, it's extremely possible that whoever buys TikTok, Facebook - with Instagram already ripping off TikTok's most popular features - might emerge the real winner.

Update (1150ET): Fox Business' Charlie Gasparino now reporting that the fight over TikTok has come down to Microsoft's tech vs. Oracle's political connections. Headlines are hitting at least every hour now as the dealmaking enters its final, frenzied stages.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/microsoft-could-announce-deal-buy-tiktok-within-48-hours

#10236834 at 2020-08-10 01:01:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13100: Kekistani in The Kitchen, Shills Still Bitchin' Edition

>>10236600 Oh Look, Here's Zhang Yiming at a 2014 Chinese sponsored World Internet Conference (WIC) along w/ lotsa American movers and shakers where the first topic was "High-Level Roundtable: An Interconnected World Shared and Governed by All".

Catherine Novelli, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment
and/or Christopher M.Painter, US Department of State Cyber Security Coordinator
TBD Cisco Senior Vice President
TBD Oracle Senior VP

https://foia.state.gov/Search/Results.aspx?searchText=%22Zhang%20Yiming%22&beginDate=&endDate=&publishedBeginDate=&publishedEndDate=&caseNumber=

#10236600 at 2020-08-10 00:35:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13100: Kekistani in The Kitchen, Shills Still Bitchin' Edition

REVEALED: TikTok Founder's 2018 Pledge To Promote 'Socialist Core Values' And Devotion To Chinese Communist Party

The founder and CEO of TikTok's parent company ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, recently pledged to use his company to promote "socialist core values" and foster adherence to the Chinese Communist Party's "ideology, political thinking, and deeds." Zhang showed his fealty in a nearly 1,000-word essay after China's State Administration of Radio and Television banned his first app for "improper" content, Posted to the Tencent-owned platform WeChat, the apology began with Zhang admitting his app offended his "socialist core values." "In the past, we have placed too much emphasis on the role of technology, and failed to realize that socialist core values are the prerequisite to technology," he stated. He noted the "deep-seated problems for the company" included "a weak understanding of the "four consciousness", a lack of socialist core values, and a biased guidance of public opinion."

"Four consciousness" is a term favored by President Xi Jinping, which, as explained by a high-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) apparatchik is to foster adherence to party "ideology, political thinking, and deeds": "The fundamental principle of strengthening consciousness is to follow the ideology, political thinking and deeds of the CCP Central Committee, with Xi as general secretary." While apologizing for "failing to live up to the guidance and expectations of the authorities," the TikTok CEO, who has repeatedly insisted the app has no links to the CCP, admitted that TikTok's parent company ByteDance has received "a lot of guidance and help" from "the authorities." "I blame myself for failing to live up to the guidance and expectations of the authorities. In the past few years, the authorities have given us a lot of guidance and help, but I failed to understand properly and to correct properly in the past that resulted in the repercussions today."

This ByteDance-CCP relationship goes some way to explaining the Trump administration's skepticism of TikTok, its data-mining, and its censorship. And as a solution to his company transgressing CCP diktats, Zhang pledges that future endeavors - such as TikTok - will "integrate the right values into technology and products." To do so, his first pledge was to "strengthen party building" by "enhancing education of all the staff on the four consciousness, socialist core values, public opinion guidance, as well as laws and regulations" along with "further deepening cooperation with authoritative media, improving distribution of authoritative media content, and ensuring the effective dissemination of authoritative voices." Zhang also promised to "set up an expert group on content supervision" with "National Party Congress representatives and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference members" in attendance. And these calls have been heeded by ByteDance: Neihan Duanzi's successor Toutiao employs thousand-person legions to moderate its content, ensuring it adheres to party-peddled narratives. What's more, the company grants priority to CCP members in their hiring process. For example, in a job posting for a "content review editor," ByteDance declared "Communist Party members would be considered first" and described its ideal employee as someone who "loves reading news, cares about current affairs, and has good political sensitivity and judgment."
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/tiktok-socialist-values-founders/
http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0303/c90000-9024163.html
https://medium.com/@pandaily/open-apology-from-ceo-of-toutiao-following-the-ban-of-neihan-duanzi-6381000939d0

#9693970 at 2020-06-21 10:50:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12408: A Morning Bread Rememberance of Frederick Christ Trump Edition

What's the population of China?
Connect the dots.
>>9693623
>>9693654
TikTok (Chinese: ??; pinyin: D?uy?n) is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming.
>>9693837
The CCP are not giving up a strategic asset.
If anything, the other way around.

#8836975 at 2020-04-18 11:27:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11314: Above & Beyond Up And Out Of Babylon We Go Edition

>>8836962
>tens millions of Americans installed ZOOM.EXE
and Tik Tok spyware

https://moneyinc.com/Zhang-Yiming/