Lobbyists for the China-owned app TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have repeatedly landed visits with President Joe Biden’s White House, according to recently revealed records.
While it remains unclear what the lobbyists discussed at the White House, their visits are “unequivocally” worrisome, says Heritage Foundation’s director of Tech Policy Center, Kara Frederick.
One of the ByteDance lobbyists, Paul Thornell, from the firm Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas, made three trips to the White House in 2022, according to the visitor logs.
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