Hoover Institution senior fellow Niall Ferguson weighs in on 'all the rage' behind the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok and Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 'One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.'
TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, reportedly had plans to track individual Americans' locations through itsByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk Control team, which typically audits potential misconduct among, also came up with plans to track a U.S. citizen, who had no affiliation with the company, on at least two occasions through TikTok, Forbes reported, citing"materials.
A TikTok spokesperson told the outlet the social media company tracks user location for the purpose of showing relevant ads, but the ByteDance audit team reportedly planned to use the app's location tracking capabilities to"surveil individual American citizens, not to target ads or any of these other purposes," according to Forbes.
TikTok and ByteDance did not immediately respond to inquiries from FoxNews.com. The companies also did not respond to Forbes when asked whether ByteDance's audit team has previously tracked the locations of U.S. government officials, journalists or other public figures.