The parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, informed employees on Thursday that staff at the company had "improperly accessed the user data of two journalists on the social media service," wrote Salvador Rodriguez for the Wall Street Journal, citing comments from ByteDance General Counsel Erich Andersen. Andersen describes the journalists as a former BuzzFeed reporter and a Financial Times reporter, noted the story. Other publicly traded companies in the space include: Snap (SNAP). Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT) and Twitter (TWTR). Reference Link
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