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Current and former employees say TikTok US still coordinates closely with the global TikTok org, and US staff continue to use ByteDance's internal chat app Lark (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/Politico)

In the months before TikTok finalized a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors friendly to President Donald Trump …

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