Business Insider is almost entirely a propaganda outlet and not actually a business publication, insider or otherwise.
The claim comes from an ex-employee from 2018. Most people want it to be true, so it is. I have no idea.
My default for TikTok stories is that NOTHING they can do is not first made possible by Apple and Google who take zero blame in any of this. That right there tells me it’s all game. TikTok/China is being used to trick people into supporting more domestic spying.
