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ByteDance's bumpy year

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ByteDance's bumpy year

TikTok remains dominant, but some (tiny) cracks are beginning to show

Casey Newton
Jun 9, 2022
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ByteDance's bumpy year

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Photo of the TikTok logo on a handheld phone (Mourizal Zativa / Unsplash)
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Today, let’s check in on ByteDance.

TikTok is arguably the most important consumer app in the world right now, but it often feels as if coverage of the company that develops it lags behind that fact. As a Chinese company, ByteDance is generally much more difficult to report on than its Silicon Valley peers. For reasons of lang…

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