Moreover, TikTok's main global office is in Los Angeles, and the app is used by people around the world, notably excluding Chinese usersTikTok, a video-sharing mobile application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., has reportedly been downloaded over 175 million times in the United States and over one billion times globallyWhile TikTok's owner ByteDance is a Chinese company, TikTok itself is an app, a piece of software that has no inherent location or nationality
3