Calls to ban TikTok didn't really get bipartisan until kind of the middle to end of last year. There was some reporting by a number of journalists that they were looking at the IP location data of users. In December, the company finally admitted that an audit team at ByteDance actually accessed the IP data of journalists who were doing some of this reporting on them in order to find their sources.

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