(Observer/Zhang Heng) A few days ago, Zhang Yiming, the founder of Byte Beat, announced that he would become the global CEO, upgrading the organizational structure of Byte Beat.Yesterday, the byte beating had a new action.According to the report of the Wall Street Journal on March 16, the short video application "TikTok" under Byte Beat, which was attacked by the US government, announced that it would stop using people in China to review overseas content and transfer these posts overseas.More than 100 employees affected will be transferred to other positions within the company.According to foreign media, this is the latest measure of byte beating in order to eliminate external concerns about China's capital background.In this regard, TikTok related people said to the Observer Network: "We respect the requirements for content health under different cultural and legal backgrounds, and have always entrusted the relevant content operation and management to the local team familiar with local culture and law." TikTok, who has been repeatedly challenged by the United States, has learned that TikTok, which is owned by Byte Beating, is a short video application launched by the company in markets outside China, and is considered to be the "overseas version of TikTok".Since its launch, TikTok's popularity has soared overseas.In January this year, TikTok has downloaded 104 million times in the global App Store and Google Play, surpassing WhatsApp and becoming the mobile app with the highest download volume in the world.In January, India, Brazil and the United States accounted for 34.4%, 10.4% and 7.3% of the top three markets for TikTok and TikTok downloads, respectively.Tiktok users are growing very fast, which has posed a certain threat to companies such as Snap and Facebook.But the extremely high growth rate has also attracted the attention of the US government.According to the Washington Post on October 25 last year, Chuck Schumer and another Senator Tom Cotton jointly applied to the US intelligence agency to investigate whether TikTok constituted a "national security risk".Two senior senators sent a letter to Joseph Maguire, the Acting Director of National Intelligence of the United States, questioning TikTok's data collection behavior, and doubting whether the application cooperated with the Chinese government's content review rules to restrict the content viewed by American users.The Washington Post believes that the demands of the two members of Congress further aggravate the regulatory obstacles TikTok and its parent company face in the United States.China's increasingly powerful science and technology industry has always been regarded as a threat by the U.S.government and Silicon Valley.They claim that the world's second largest economy will seize the leading position of the United States in science and technology, which will endanger American enterprises, scientific research and national security.To explain TikTok's policy to the outside world.On November 18 last year, Zhu Jun, the head of TikTok, said in an interview with the New York Times that TikTok does not share user data with China.All data of TikTok's global users are stored in Virginia, and there is a backup server in Singapore.Zhu Jun said that the user data of TikTok is separated from other parts of the byte hopping, and TikTok data is only used by TikTok users.However, TikTok's efforts have not completely changed the United States
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