The move by the short-form video app comes after China imposed its new security law on the city.
TikTok has said it will quit the Hong Kong market after China imposed a new security law on the city.
The short-form video app was launched by China-based ByteDance for users outside mainland China as part of a strategy to grow its global audience.TikTok, now run by former Walt Disney executive Kevin Mayer, has said in the past that the app's user data is not stored in China.
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