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Chinese owners of TikTok put out another popular app that could create concerns

By Nihal Krishan

Published May 24, 2021 8:44pm ET

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Chinese owners of TikTok put out another popular app that could create concerns — Women wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus chat as they pass by the ByteDance headquarters in Beijing, China on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. | (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Social media app TikTok’s Chinese parent company is getting more entrenched into American phones, with its video editing program CapCut the most popular downloaded app in the Apple App Store since Friday.

The second-most downloaded app is TikTok itself, which has come under intense scrutiny for data privacy concerns due to ByteDance’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party and has even caused the app to be banned from some government devices.

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