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In a surprising twist, employees of TikTok, the popular social media app, were reportedly required to swear an allegiance to upholding the Chinese socialist system, highlighting the pervasive reach of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into the operations of its corporations. This revelation emerged from legal documents related to a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former TikTok executive. These documents claim that TikTok’s operational policies are heavily influenced or directly controlled by its parent company, ByteDance, which has known connections to the CCP.