Emily Baker-White is an investigative reporter and senior writer at Forbes. She joined Forbes from BuzzFeed News in 2022 and covers the way tech companies shape our discourse, commerce, and culture. Baker-White’s coverage of TikTok has been widely cited by lawmakers, regulators and other news outlets.
A former ByteDance employee, in a sworn statement filed in U.S. federal court, alleges Chinese police kidnapped and intimidated his father as retribution for an interview that he gave to Western press about censorship at TikTok.
Under penalty of perjury, the former employee wrote that his father relayed the officers’ orders: “The Chinese national police demanded, ‘keep your mouth shut.’ They also demanded that I contact the BBC and retract that BBC article, which I did under coercion and fear.” He said the BBC refused to retract its story.
The former employee did not claim that ByteDance had knowledge of, or was complicit in, the Chinese police’s alleged intimidation of his father.was not able to independently corroborate the former employee’s claims. ByteDance said in a court filing that it “unequivocally denies any involvement” in the alleged events.The former employees’ allegations, if true, suggest a direct Chinese government interest in quashing public discussion of censorship on TikTok.
The declaration was filed in support of a motion for reconsideration filed by Yu’s attorneys. Yu had asked that a witness in his case be kept anonymous, but the judge ruled against him on that point. In an unsuccessful attempt to change the judge’s mind, his lawyers relied in part on the redacted former employee’s story, to demonstrate the real world harm that people in China may face when speaking out about TikTok and ByteDance.
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