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TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Made Fake Accounts With Content Scraped From Instagram And Snapchat, Former Employees Say. Emily Baker-White. Mon, April 4, 2022 at 4:45 PM UTC. 10 min read.
ByteDance made fake accounts with content taken from Instagram, Snapchat and other platforms and posted them on Flipagram in 2017, according to a new report.
TikTok's parent ByteDance took large amounts of content from Instagram and Snapchat without their knowledge or consent and published them via fake accounts to TikTok's predecessor, Flipagram, in ...
Influencers are being offered cash to push the Instagram-clone run by the Chinese giant ByteDance. The move could be a bid to dodge a TikTok ban.
To fuel the rise of its app Flipagram, TikTok parent company Bytedance scraped profiles, videos, usernames and other content from Instagram and other social media platforms. Buzzfeed reported that ...
For TikTok-owner ByteDance, the coronavirus outbreak has been a boon to business. ... TikTok is winning over millennials and Instagram stars as its popularity explodes ...
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How ByteDance became Instagram's worst nightmare Beijing-based ByteDance, the world's most valuable start-up with a valuation of $75 billion, launched its short video app Douyin in China in late 2016.