The head of engineering was dismissed in November 2018.
A former executive at ByteDance in the United States is claiming the company let him go after he expressed concern to management that it was taking user content from other platforms, mainly Instagram and Snapchat.The man was a head of engineering at the company.
The news was revealed at a time when ByteDance-owned app TikTok faces pressure for a nationwide ban from some U.S. lawmakers regarding concerns about potential Chinese government influence over it. Yintao "Roger" Yu filed a complaint on Friday in San Francisco state court claiming that his former employer engaged in a "worldwide scheme to steal and profit from the content of others" without seeking permission.Yu further said that when he expressed these concerns to higher management, they dismissed them and asked him to hide the illegal program.But that’s not all.
Through his court order Yu hopes to prohibit ByteDance from scraping content from other social media platforms,
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