Amazon Says Email Ordering Employees to Delete TikTok Was Sent in Error
July 10 2020 - 6:03PM
Dow Jones News
By Sarah E. Needleman
Amazon.com Inc. sent employees an email Friday morning mandating
they remove the TikTok app from company mobile devices, but a
spokesman later said that order had been sent in error.
In the now-retracted staff memo, Amazon said that employees must
delete TikTok if they are accessing their company email from their
phones due to unspecified security concerns. The e-commerce giant
had also said employees could still use TikTok from an Amazon
laptop browser.
"This morning's email to some of our employees was sent in
error," an Amazon spokesman said late Friday. "There is no change
to our policies right now with regard to TikTok."
The memo initially caused a stir as it appeared to be the latest
high-profile setback for the short-form video app. Earlier this
week its owner, Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd., said it would pull
TikTok out of Hong Kong amid concerns about a new national-security
law, its second market exit after India last week banned the app
and others from Chinese companies as part of an escalating border
dispute between Beijing and New Delhi.
Bytedance in May hired a top Walt Disney Co. executive, Kevin
Mayer, to be TikTok's new CEO and navigate its controversial global
expansion.
(More to Come)
Write to Sarah E. Needleman at sarah.needleman@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 10, 2020 17:48 ET (21:48 GMT)
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