ByteDance Made Fake Accounts With Content Scraped From Instagram and Snapchat, Former Employees Say
Source evidence cited by public records. This page shows where the source is used, its trust tier, and when it was last checked in the seed.
Records using this source
- ByteDance Allegedly Trained "For You" Algorithm Using Content Scraped without Consent from Other Social Platforms
event | 16 May 2022 | 82%
ByteDance allegedly scraped short-form videos, usernames, profile pictures, and descriptions of accounts on Instagram, Snapchat, and other sources, and uploaded them without consent on Flipagram, TikTok’s predecessor, in order to improve its “For You” algorithm's performance on American users.