China Orders TikTok Owner ByteDance to Remove Office App (1)

Chinese regulators ordered ByteDance Ltd. to temporarily suspend downloads of its nascent Slack-style office app after discovering content from banned sites like Facebook and Twitter, dealing a blow to the startup’s broader internet ambitions.

The Cyberspace Administration of China informed TikTok’s operator it must take down its Feishu office collaboration tool from major domestic app stores for about a month, people familiar with the matter said. That was punishment for a feature that allowed users to browse posts from foreign platforms via a newsfeed function, the people said, asking not to be named because the decision hasn’t been made public. ...