(Bloomberg, New York) American media reported that the Chinese government has requested to open a stealth account on the Tiktok of Douyin International Edition to publicize it for Western readers.
According to Bloomberg, the Chinese government gave TIKTOK in April 2020, Elizabeth Kanter, the head of government relations in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Israel, said that a government entity in China is interested in TiktokTo set up an account, but it does not want the public to discover the government status of this account. The "main purpose is to release publicity materials to show the best side of China to the outside world."
Bytes are responsible for several senior executives in the government relations team, including Eric Andersen, the global legal adviser of Kanter and Tiktok to the United States, and reject the requirements of the government agency.
The internal information seen by a reporter from Bloomberg also shows that the Chinese government hopes to obtain suggestions on how to operate and attract Western audience accounts, and put forward to pay for this service.
Asked whether these internal information is true, Tiktok's spokesman faded the matter, saying that this was an informal request of a friend of a company employee.
A spokesman said: "We refuse to provide support for this request, because we think that creating such an account will violate our community standards."
Tiktok allows certain Chinese government departments, such as the Chinese embassy in the United States to set up a confirmed Tiktok account.
A spokesman said that Tiktok is ready to relax. For the policies of the official account, more government departments are allowed to set up account numbers, but these accounts must be indicated as the official account.
