TikTok said less than 500 employees in the country were affected.
ByteDance, the parent of social media platform TikTok, has over 110,000 employees in more than 200 cities globally, according to the company’s website.
TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, later clarified that less than 500 employees in the country were affected. TikTok employs a mix of automated detection and human moderators to review content posted on the site.
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