KUALA LUMPUR (August 12): Three hundred current employees at TikTok and its parent company ByteDance previously worked for Chinese state media publications, according to Forbes .

Citing public employee LinkedIn profiles it reviewed, the magazine on Thursday (Aug 11) reported that twenty-three of these profiles appear to have been created by current ByteDance directors, who manage departments overseeing content partnerships, public affairs, corporate social responsibility and “ media cooperation.”

300 current TikTok And ByteDance employees used to work for Chinese state media – Forbes comes via ChinaTechNews.com.