Former Chinese diplomat worked on TikTok content policy, FT says

WASHINGTON - A former Chinese government official decided what content should be allowed on TikTok, the Financial Times reported, citing two people close to the short-video app company.He'd previously worked at China's embassy in Teheran, the FT said, citing a deleted LinkedIn profile.

Mr Cai joined ByteDance in 2018 and wrote guidelines for what videos were acceptable on TikTok and other apps including Helo and Vigo Video. TikTok told FT that Mr Cai wasn't involved in developing policies, noting that he worked on regional and local teams on localisation of early content policies. ByteDance told the newspaper it was"not a consideration in hiring Zheng that his previous role was in the public sector, and there were no conversations with the government in the hiring process."The former diplomat transferred from the content policy role in January this year, the people told the paper, and his role has not since been filled.

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