• Bruce Sapp, Content Monitor, TikTok: “I'm sure a lot of the coding sh*t is still very beneficial to China.”
• Sapp: “You have to train like a year with [the] FBI -- because things they do are more of like -- I don't know if you've heard, but like Andrew Tate getting taken down in Romania. So, like it would be more of that sh*t. Like people who are on TikTok that are obviously wanted criminals -- working with the police, like helping them find their locations, sh*t like that.”
• Sapp: “There's a [TikTok] department in [Washington] D.C. that works with the FBI, like, I want to know what the f**k they do. Like, what do we need an FBI team for? I feel like to a certain extent, the government has to have their hand in certain apps because they have their hand in like, everything.”
• Sapp: “I think the thing with social media, which is very scary, is you have a lot of people like parents, older generations, or even people who are just too dumb to do their own research.”
• Sapp: “They [social media users] have certain people that they follow -- whether it be like the Andrew Tates of the world, the Tucker Carlsons…So, it's important for us as a social media company to have these [moderation] policies in play so we can do our best to keep false information off the internet.”
[Nashville, Tenn. – Mar. 22, 2023] Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a US-based TikTok employee, Bruce Sapp, who admitted that the tech giant has a unique relationship with both China and the FBI.
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese-based company that has come under scrutiny in the last few years for its alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
In the conversation with a Veritas journalist, Sapp shared why he thinks the U.S. government has issues with his employer:
Veritas Journalist: “Like, people in our government want to ban TikTok off of government officials’ devices. Why is that?”
Sapp: “If I had to guess, it's because I'm sure a lot of the coding is still very beneficial to China -- and because of the whole China-America relationship. I'm sure it's something to do with those.”
Sapp went on to discuss the current relationship between the FBI and TikTok.
“You have to train like a year with [the] FBI -- because things they do are more of like -- I don't know if you've heard, but like Andrew Tate getting taken down in Romania. So, like it would be more of that sh*t. Like people who are on TikTok that are obviously wanted criminals -- working with the police, like helping them find their locations, sh*t like that,” he said.
“There's a [TikTok] department in [Washington] D.C. that works with the FBI, like, I want to know what the f**k they do. Like, what do we need an FBI team for? I feel like to a certain extent, the government has to have their hand in certain apps because they have their hand in like, everything.”
The TikTok employee also shared his concerns for what he calls “false information” that may circulate on the platform.
“I think the thing with social media, which is very scary, is you have a lot of people like parents, older generations, or even people who are just too dumb to do their own research,” Sapp said.
“They [social media users] have certain people that they follow -- whether it be like the Andrew Tates of the world, the Tucker Carlsons…So, it's important for us as a social media company to have these [moderation] policies in play so we can do our best to keep false information off the internet.”
