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ByteDance

Tracked because Owner of TikTok — documented cognitive harms.
Editorial summary · AI-drafted from public records

Chinese technology company; parent of TikTok and Douyin.

Facts on record1
Connections mapped10
Sources cited15
Inferential claims1
✦ Thin coverage gap +19 connected to 10 entities · only 1 facts on record · flagged for follow-up research
Evidence: 1I
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🧠 Cognitive harm you own/control
Primary confidence
Aggregated from 1 platform owned, funded, or controlled by ByteDance.
69
Score 0–100
High
TikTok
69
4 documented harms · High
Score combines documented harm count, severity weighting, platform reach, and engineered mechanisms. See full methodology →
Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
[PUBLIC COST ESTIMATE]
Documented financial relationships span 0 money flow chains, while 5 elected officials hold documented connections.
0Money Chains
0Traced Hops
Connected Officials
Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

PATTERN person → [regulatory filing] → government agency → [regul... 8424× PATTERN company → [regulatory filing] → government agency → [regu... 5356× PATTERN government agency → [regulatory filing] → government agen... 3121× PATTERN company → [oversight] → government agency → [regulatory f... 2394× PATTERN organization → [regulatory filing] → government agency → ... 2392×
Connection Map
Key Connections
→ SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 instrument
regulatory_filing
ByteDance filed a filing with the SEC on 2019-02-01, indicating interaction with SEC regulatory frameworks.
→ Securities and Exchange Commission government agency
regulatory_filing
ByteDance filed a filing with the SEC on 2019-02-01.
← Andrea Salinas person
voted on legislation
Salinas voted for the TikTok ban (H.R. 7521) in March 2024, targeting the parent company of TikTok.
← Raja Krishnamoorthi person
legislation target
Co-authored legislation forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a U.S. ban (H.R. 7521, passed House 352-65 on March 13, 2024).
← Michael McCaul elected official
legislative target
McCaul was the lead sponsor of H.R. 7521, the 'Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,' which forced ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a U.S. ban. The bill passed the House on March 13, 2024.
← Mark Warner elected official
legislation/regulation
Warner's legislative actions targeting TikTok directly affect ByteDance, TikTok's parent company. The TikTok Divestment Act would force ByteDance to divest the platform.
← Randy Fine person
legislative target
H.R. 7084, which Rep. Fine voted for, targets foreign adversary controlled applications including ByteDance/TikTok.
Facts (1)
Data Freshness
Ageing Last update: 175d ago · Avg age: 1002d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
AI Analysis (1)
AI-generated inferences derived from cross-referencing primary and secondary data. These are analytical hypotheses, not established facts — they are the platform's read, not its record, and the verification pipeline covers their provenance, not their truth. Where verification stops →
⚠ flagged by Gemini AI Inferencew·40 ByteDance filed filing with the SEC on 2019-02-01. Accession number: N/A.
Date: 2019-02-01 Added: 23 Apr 2026 ↗ RECORDS: SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2019-02-01)
All Connections (10)
→ TikTok company
subsidiary inferential since 2020
ByteDance is the parent company of TikTok, which appears as a known entity in the database.
regulatory_filing primary since 2019
ByteDance filed a filing with the SEC on 2019-02-01, indicating interaction with SEC regulatory frameworks.
→ Securities and Exchange Commission government agency
regulatory_filing primary since 2019
ByteDance filed a filing with the SEC on 2019-02-01.
← Andrea Salinas person
voted on legislation primary since 2024
Salinas voted for the TikTok ban (H.R. 7521) in March 2024, targeting the parent company of TikTok.
← Raja Krishnamoorthi person
legislation target primary since 2024
Co-authored legislation forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a U.S. ban (H.R. 7521, passed House 352-65 on March 13, 2024).
← TechCrunch company
coverage_subject secondary since 2018
TechCrunch covers ByteDance as the parent company of TikTok, including its financial performance and expansion strategies.
← Randy Fine person
legislative target primary since 2026
H.R. 7084, which Rep. Fine voted for, targets foreign adversary controlled applications including ByteDance/TikTok.
← YouTube company
competitor inferential since 2020
ByteDance owns TikTok, a direct competitor to YouTube in video content.
← Michael McCaul elected official
legislative target primary since 2024
McCaul was the lead sponsor of H.R. 7521, the 'Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,' which forced ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a U.S. ban. The bill passed the House on March 13, 2024.
← Mark Warner elected official
legislation/regulation primary since 2024
Warner's legislative actions targeting TikTok directly affect ByteDance, TikTok's parent company. The TikTok Divestment Act would force ByteDance to divest the platform.
Sources (15)
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: ByteDance — Court records (no results) court_document Processed 📜 Receipt
2025-03-31 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2025-03-31) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2021-08-12 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2021-08-12) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2019-02-01 ↗ SEC EDGAR: D — NPC ByteDance, LLC (2019-02-01) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2019-02-01 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2019-02-01) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2025-04-29 ↗ SEC EDGAR: D — MW LSVC Bytedance, LLC (2025-04-29) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: ByteDance — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: ByteDance — Corporate registrations (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: ByteDance — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: ByteDance — USASpending contracts (no results) contract Processed 📜 Receipt
2025-04-29 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2025-04-29) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2024-02-22 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2024-02-22) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2023-03-16 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2023-03-16) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026-04-23 UNVERIFIED SEARCH_ERROR: ByteDance not found in opencorporates claim_flag Processed 📜 Receipt
2019-02-01 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — ByteDance (2019-02-01) web_search Processed 📜 Receipt