Specifically, the whistleblower shared a snippet of code with the Post which they say shows TikTok’s code connecting with Toutiao, a Chinese news app also run by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. “Anyone who left the company in February of 2022 would have no knowledge of the current status of Project Texas and the many significant milestones the initiative has reached over the last year in our efforts to further safeguard our community and our platform in the United States,” the TikTok spokesperson said in an email. “TikTok and ByteDance are functionally the same company