TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report

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Asia In Brief ByteDance, the Chinese developer of TikTok, 'can no longer be accurately described as a private enterprise' and is instead intertwined with China's government, according to a report [PDF] submitted to Australia's Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media.…