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Judge Rules ByteDance Accuser Committed Perjury

The Information · Martin Peers · last updated

A judge in California ruled that a former engineering manager for TikTok’s parent ByteDance, who alleged in 2022 the company had operated as a “useful propaganda tool” for the Chinese Communist Party, had “engaged in serious, bad faith conduct that has abused the judicial process.”

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