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    New DOJ Filing: TikTok's Owner Is 'A Mouthpiece' Of Chinese Communist Party

    In a new court filing, the Trump administration offers its most thorough explanation to date of why it considers the hit video-sharing app a national security threat.
    by Bobby Allyn Sep 26, 2020 3 minutes
    Zhang Yiming, chief executive officer and founder of ByteDance Ltd., poses for a photograph in Beijing, China in 2019.

    The Trump administration is accusing the the chief executive of ByteDance, the owner of video-sharing app TikTok, of being "a mouthpiece" for the Chinese Community Party and alleging that the tech company has a close relationship with Beijing authorities that endangers the security of Americans.

    The Justice Department on Friday night of its push to ban TikTok in a legal filing in response to TikTok's lawsuit asking a federal judge to stop Trump's

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