There's an archived version of that page https://web.archive.org/web/20220617155011/https://newsroom.... that was published 40 minutes before the Buzzfeed News article. (15:50 UTC vs. 12:31 p.m. ET)

Rather unlikely that the one published earlier is actually a response to the one published later.

i understand that's not what you like to hear, but here we go agane

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i'm not suggesting nor question whether it is good or bad, or what they should do my sole purpose is to put things into perspective

the question here is not where the data should be hosted, the question is who can have access to that data

if it was where, for data sovereignty, a bill and the problem is solved

but here, they make it linger, because the motive is not about any of that, TikTok's user data is useless, the motive is to weaken and picture China as the evil, manipulate the public opinion to get favors whenever things are becoming dirty in SEA

it's the same tactics the USA did since their birth, and it predates the existence of "America"

what's the point if everything is always one sided, and nobody gets to question the way the world is rotating?

in apocalypse we find life