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  "title": "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)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/current-and-former-employees-say-tiktok-us-still-coordinates-closely",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-10T08:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
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  "summary": "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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        "title": "Sources and internal docs: TikTok cut the violations for which an advertiser could be immediately banned from 37 to 13 last fall, leading to a surge in scams (Katharine Schwab/Forbes)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/sources-and-internal-docs-tiktok-cut-the-violations-for-which-an",
        "published": "2026-10-09T23:35:01.000Z"
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