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<ul><li>The targeted reporters were Emily Baker-White, who wrote for BuzzFeed and is now at Forbes, and <keyword id="15863221" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="cristina-criddle" source="Orion">Cristina Criddle</keyword> of the <keyword id="35662" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="financial-times" source="Orion">Financial Times</keyword>.</li><li><keyword id="3749909" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="bytedance" source="Orion">ByteDance</keyword> said it had restructured its internal audit and risk team and had removed any access to US data from that department.</li><li>The investigation was initiated after an article was published by Forbes, and the inquiry confirms part of that report.</li></ul> ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of <keyword id="6762469" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="tiktok" source="Orion">TikTok</keyword>, said on Thursday that an internal investigation found that employees had inappropriately obtained the data of US TikTok users, including that of two US reporters, according to an email seen by Reuters. The targeted reporters were Emily Baker-White, who wrote for BuzzFeed and is now at Forbes, and Cristina Criddle of the Financial Times, ByteDance said, though it declined to identify other affected TikTok users. ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information and were aiming to identify potential connections between two journalists and company employees, revealed the email from ByteDance general counsel <keyword id="15860720" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="erich-andersen" source="Orion">Erich Andersen</keyword>. All four employees involved in the scheme were fired, the company said, correcting an earlier statement that one of the four had resigned. Two of those employees were working in China and two were in the United States, reported The <keyword id="53556" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="new-york-times" source="Orion">New York Times</keyword>. ByteDance said it had restructured its internal audit and risk team and had removed any access to US data from that department. Over the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts. They were trying to determine if those individuals were within proximity of ByteDance employees, according to the company, which added that the efforts failed to find any leaks, reported The New York Times. The investigation was initiated after an article was published by Forbes, and the inquiry confirms part of that report and highlights the privacy and security risks associated with TikTok that US lawmakers, state governors and the <keyword id="6354862" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="trump" source="Orion">Trump</keyword> and <keyword id="60973" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="biden" source="Orion">Biden</keyword> administrations have raised for more than two years. More than a dozen states have banned TikTok from government-issued devices, and the company has been in prolonged negotiations with the administration on security and privacy measures that would block any potential access of US user data by ByteDance and the Chinese government, reported NYT. Taiwan is investigating Douyin International, the Chinese twin of hugely popular TikTok, for allegedly illegally expanding social media business in the island nation, reported Voice of America (VOA). On Monday (December 19), the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan, confirmed in a local media report the allegations made by a political affairs member of the Executive Yuan that the Mainland Affairs Council took note of the Chinese company ByteDance's opening of a branch in Taiwan, further accusing it of business expansion and transferring cases involving related operators to criminal offences to the judicial authorities for investigation. App developer ByteDance, headquartered in Beijing, was suspected of running a subsidiary in contravention of a law that restricts a variety of Chinese firms, including social media companies, from operating offices in Taiwan. 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TikTok employees spied on US journalists

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The UK financial <keyword id="76550" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="regulator">regulator</keyword> has warned <keyword id="6762469" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="TikTok">TikTok</keyword> users about taking stock tips from the app.</li><li>The Financial Conduct Authority warned about "promising high-return investments," per <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55948550">BBC News</a>. </li><li>One user posted videos with names like: "Only future millionaires can see this video!!" </li></ul>TikTok users were being warned about risky investment advice on the social app, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55948550">BBC News</a> reported.The UK's Financial Conduct Authority told investors should be wary of any advice promising high-return investments, the report said. "There are risks with taking unregulated investment advice and we engage with social media platforms to have pages which breach our regulations taken down," an <keyword id="295132" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="FCA">FCA</keyword> spokesperson told Cristina Criddle, a BBC tech reporter.Social media has been flooded with investment advice in the last few weeks, as <keyword id="334157" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Reddit">Reddit</keyword>'s Wall Street Bets subreddit banded together and fueled sky-high returns on <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gamestop-amc-shares-advance-robinhood-lifts-restrictions-trading-reddit-stocks-2021-2-1030048672">GameStop</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amc-entertainment-silver-lake-sells-shares-113-million-reddit-2021-1">AMC</a>, and other investments.In the US, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal financial regulators have reportedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/janet-yellen-sec-regulator-meet-gamestop-wall-street-reddit-treasury-2021-2">been discussing</a> the trading frenzy. Lawmakers from both parties have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-ted-cruz-investigation-gamestop-robinhood-trading-chaos-2021-1">called for investigations</a> into volatile trading. The SEC said last week that it was <a href="https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/joint-statement-market-volatility-2021-01-29">"closely monitoring and evaluating"</a> the situation.On TikTok, users were also posting about GameStop, AMC, and other Reddit-fueled stocks. The #investing hashtag on TikTok had about 1.6 billion views, and GameStop was searched about 600 million times in a single day on the app, according to <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-pandemic-and-now-gamestop-have-turned-young-people-onto-investing-these-top-tiktok-accounts-offer-advice-for-budding-warren-buffetts-11612457418">MarketWatch</a>. Paxful, a cryptocurrency trading platform, studied how TikTok users gave investment advice, as <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55948550">BBC News</a> first reported. About one in seven videos about financial investments posted on TikTok were misleading and asked users to make financial decisions without carrying disclaimers, according to <a href="https://paxful.com/insights/influencer-investors/#intro">Paxful</a>. "More than half (52%) of the influencer accounts that we analyzed had posted at least one misleading video," Paxful said in a post, <a href="https://paxful.com/insights/influencer-investors/#home">"Influencer Investors."</a>One TikTok user with about 130,000 followers posted videos titled "This stock will make you rich" and "Only future millionaires can see this video!!" The videos singled out specific stocks. In the videos, the user quickly flashed the companies' balance and earnings sheets, along with their most recent stock quotes. "Consumers should be wary of adverts and advice online and on social media promising high-return investments, and should always do further research on the product they are considering," an FCA spokeswoman told BBC News.In December, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tik-tok-stock-market-investing-creators-explaining-new-generation-investors-2020-12">Insider</a> spoke with five TikTok creators focused on <keyword id="35175" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="investing">investing</keyword>.

TikTok users are taking high-risk stock tips from influencers and regulators want it to stop

<ul class="summary-list"><li>TikTok-owner ByteDance said workers accessed user data from US journalists and other private citizens, NYT reports.</li><li>ByteDance said the data collection was part of an unsuccessful attempt to track down leaks, per the report.</li></ul>TikTok's parent company ByteDance informed employees that some of its staff improperly accessed TikTok user data on some US citizens, including two journalists, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times reported Thursday.</a>The China-based parent company, which is facing scrutiny from US lawmakers over privacy concerns, told employees in an email <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen by</a> The New York Times that an investigation found that the data was collected as part of an attempt to track internal leaks to the press.The memo said that two US-based employees and two based in China were fired for taking part in the endeavor, which was unsuccessful in uncovering any leakers, according to The New York Times. Data, such as IP addresses and other sensitive information, were reportedly gathered from the TikTok accounts of 2 reporters: <a href="https://twitter.com/ebakerwhite/status/1606016816588894208">Emily Baker-White</a> from Buzzfeed and <a href="https://twitter.com/MsHannahMurphy/status/1606006610677022720">Cristina Criddle</a> from Financial Times, according to journalists from both publications. Other US citizens connected to the two reporters were also targeted, according to the Times.ByteDance reportedly said it had restricted its audit and risk teams, now removing access to US data from that department moving forward. "The public trust that we have spent huge efforts building is going to be significantly undermined by the misconduct of a few individuals," ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo reportedly wrote to employees in an email. TikTok's parent company ByteDance did not immediately respond to comment from Insider. The revelation comes as TikTok faces <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/a-ban-on-tiktok-could-be-bad-news-for-oracle-2022-12">increasing pressure</a> from lawmakers worried it could be used as a tool by the Chinese government to spy on or influence US citizens. Last week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/1ebac814-157e-4e26-81b9-d9aa3fd96ae3/5861AFCCFDC5254BAFEE5BB2BDA54B32.hey22c36.pdf">introduced a bill</a> that would ban "all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of, China, Russia, and several other foreign countries of concern."The Senate also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-votes-ban-tiktok-government-phones-unanimously-2022-12">recently voted to ban</a> TikTok from all government devices. In a statement to Insider, TikTok called the bill "a proposal which does nothing to advance U.S. national security interests."TikTok has consistently denied reports that it tracks Americans using its application.In response to a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bytedance-planned-track-specific-us-tiktok-user-locations-report-2022-10">Forbes report</a> from October that ByteDance planned to use the TikTok app to track the location of specific US citizens, TikTok tweeted, in part, "TikTok has never been used to 'target' any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figures or journalists, nor do we serve them a different content experience than other users."

TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly confirmed employees in US and China accessed the user data of some US citizens, including 2 journalists

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Six current and former TikTok and ByteDance employees said staff can pick what goes viral, per Forbes.</li><li>A "heating feature" allows them to boost videos to reach more people and get more views.</li></ul>The viral videos on your TikTok For You page might not just be there because the algorithm knows what you like. According to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tiktoks-secret-heating-button-can-make-anyone-go-viral/?sh=28e69b96bfd4">a new report from Forbes</a>, TikTok and ByteDance staff can boost videos to get them onto more feeds.Six current and former TikTok and ByteDance <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tiktoks-secret-heating-button-can-make-anyone-go-viral/?sh=28e69b96bfd4">employees told Forbes</a> that staff at the social media platform and its parent company can pick which videos go viral using a feature called "heating.""The heating feature refers to boosting videos into the For You feed through operation intervention to achieve a certain number of video views. The total video views of heated videos accounts for a large portion of the daily total video views, around 1-2%, which can have a significant impact on overall core metrics," says the MINT Heating Playbook, an internal TikTok document reviewed by Forbes.Sources told Forbes the feature is often used to attract both influencers and brands.Unlike ads and sponsored content on TikTok, heated content isn't labeled. "We promote some videos to help diversify the content experience and introduce celebrities and emerging creators to the TikTok community," a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement to Insider. "Only a few people, based in the US, have the ability to approve content for promotion in the US, and that content makes up approximately .002% of videos in For You feeds." The spokesperson said TikTok is continuing to expand its "why this video" feature to provide more granularity and transparency around recommended content. According to three of the sources and internal documents reviewed by Forbes, some employees used the heating feature improperly by, for example, boosting their personal accounts or accounts of people they know personally. That is reportedly against company policy. Another document reviewed by Forbes called TikTok Heating Policy said TikTok and ByteDance employees could use the heating feature to "attract influencers," "promote diverse content," "push important information," and promote "relevant videos that were missed by the recommendations algorithms." Two of Forbes' sources told the publication that employees could decide on their own what content fits the guidelines.The MINT Heating Playbook says that if the feature used well, "a small amount of heating" will help creators grow and lead to more diverse content on the platform.In her statement to Insider, the spokesperson added that under a national security agreement being considered by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States "all protocols and processes for promoting videos in the United States would be auditable by CFIUS and third party monitors; only vetted TikTok US Data Security personnel would have the ability to 'heat' videos in the US" The contract between TikTok and CFIUS is still being negotiated and revolves around national security concerns given TikTok's ownership by Chinese company ByteDance, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-tries-to-win-allies-in-the-u-s-with-more-transparency-11673836560">per The Wall Street Journal</a>.ByteDance has experienced increasing criticism for the access it gives employees as the company faces pressure from officials concerned that the app could be used as a tool for the Chinese government. In December, the company reportedly confirmed that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bytedance-employees-china-us-accessed-tiktok-user-data-journalists-report-2022-12">employees improperly accessed TikTok user data</a> from US-based TikTok users, including journalists Emily Baker-White, formerly at Buzzfeed and now at Forbes, and Cristina Criddle at the Financial Times.TikTok is currently being banned from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-banned-us-government-state-devices-2023-1">government devices in at least 27 states</a> as security concerns grow over the Chinese-owned app.<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tiktoks-secret-heating-button-can-make-anyone-go-viral/?sh=2dba3c4d6bfd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the full Forbes report here.</a>

TikTok reportedly has a 'heating feature' that lets its staff pick which videos go viral

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="819905" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Instagram">Instagram</keyword> apologized for an <keyword id="6519448" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="algorithm">algorithm</keyword> "mistake" that promoted weight loss posts to people with <keyword id="174535" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eating-disorders">eating disorders</keyword>.</li><li>"Exposure to unexpected triggers can present a significant risk of relapse," a psychologist told Insider.</li><li>Influencer Victoria Spence said she doesn't believe the suggestions were a mistake.</li></ul>Instagram has apologized for promoting diet content to users recovering from eating disorders.A "mistake" in the algorithm meant that when going to the app's "search" bar, terms about restrictive diets were suggested, including "fasting," and "appetite suppressants."The error has now been fixed, a spokesperson for Instagram told <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56750088">the BBC's Cristina Criddle</a>. <div type="image" title="Instagram search bar.PNG" height="620" width="827" msid="82101619" hostid="261"></div><h2>Instagram has apologized 'for any confusion caused'</h2>While social media as a whole has communities that encourage harmful disordered eating habits, like the so-called <a href="https://www.insider.com/eugenia-cooney-youtube-videos-thin-creators-eating-disorders-proana-thinspiration-2019-5">"pro-ana" community</a>, it can provide a place of support for many of those in recovery too."To help people discover content they're interested in, we recently rolled out a new way to search on Instagram beyond hashtags and usernames, where you tap on the search bar and we suggest topics you may want to search for," a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram, said in a statement sent to Insider."Those suggestions, as well as the search results themselves, are limited to general interests," they continued. "Weight loss should not have been one of them and we've taken steps to prevent these terms from appearing here. We're sorry for any confusion caused."Instagram said it does not allow content encouraging <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-not-to-say-to-someone-with-an-eating-disorder">eating disorders</a> and removes posts as soon as the company is aware of them. Users are allowed to talk about their recovery, but hashtags like #thinspo, #proana, and #anabuddy are blocked.Similarly, posts selling products linked to huge weight loss claims are banned, the social network said.<h2>Psychologists say these 'unexpected triggers can present a significant risk of relapse'</h2>According to Dr. Bryony Bamford, Clinical Director at The London Centre for Eating Disorders and Body Image, the damage may have already been done."Many people with <keyword id="27534" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eating-disorder">eating disorder</keyword>s, or in recovery from an eating disorder, can be immensely triggered by unhelpful messages viewed on social media," she told Insider. "Messages about dieting or weight loss in particular can strengthen or trigger eating disorder cognitions. Recovering from an eating disorder can be an extremely vulnerable time for sufferers, and whilst they can try to limit known triggers as much as possible, exposure to unexpected triggers can present a significant risk of relapse."Victoria Spence is an influencer who regularly posts about overcoming her eating disorder, but says when she was in a vulnerable position in her recovery, suggestions such as these could have been "so harmful.""For those who have eating disorders and are turning to Instagram as a safe space to be able to connect with others who are recovering, like I did seven years ago, having this kind of messaging shoved in your face when you're not even out searching for it is so harmful," she told Insider. "It could honestly be the decider as to whether one continues with recovery or experiences a relapse."<h2><keyword id="10087009" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eating-disorder-recovery">Eating disorder recovery</keyword> campaigners say more needs to be done</h2>Spence said she doesn't believe Instagram promoting diet content was an algorithm mistake."Instagram is a business at the end of the day and the diet industry is a multi-billion pound industry, so by Instagram adding it to the search engine, they knew that it would equate to a lot of sales," she said. "The problem with promoting content around 'appetite suppressants' and 'weight loss plans' on a platform with so many impressionable young people is that they are normalizing dieting and glorifying methods of weight loss that will inevitably trigger disordered eating or even worse, eating disorders."Spence believes Instagram needs to improve the algorithm so that more inclusive content performs better and diet posts are pushed down."I guess the question is, do they genuinely care about the people using their platform or do they care more about themselves as a business?" she said.Tom Quinn, Director of External Affairs at eating disorder charity Beat, echoed Spence's call for Instagram to do more."Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses and it's concerning that individuals who are struggling were being promoted this kind of harmful content," he told Insider. "While we're glad that Instagram have addressed this, more needs to be done across all social channels to protect people who have or are vulnerable to eating disorders. We'd encourage people to report damaging content when they see it, to step away from social media if they feel it is negatively impacting their wellbeing, and to seek out safe and positive alternatives, such as Beat's message boards."If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, you can call <a href="https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline">NEDA's Helpline</a> (1-800-931-2237) on weekdays for support, resources, and information about treatment options. In crisis situations, NEDA offers 24/7 support - just text "NEDA" to 741-741.

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