China's ByteDance told engineers of its popular short-video app TikTok this week to make contingencies should it need to shut down its US ...
NEW YORK: China's ByteDance told engineers of its popular short-video app TikTok this week to make contingencies should it need to shut down its US operations, even as it works toward divesting them, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday .
A sale would have to be greenlighted by both the United States and Chinese governments. The shutdown contingencies are also aimed at preparing TikTok's global operations for the possibility that one of the two countries blocks any deal, the sources said. "As any responsible company would do, we are simultaneously developing plans to try to ensure that our US employees continue to get paid in any outcome."While TikTok is best known for its anodyne videos of people dancing that go viral among teenagers, US officials have expressed concerns that information on users could be passed on to China's communist government.
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