China reportedly orders TikTok owner ByteDance to remove Feishu workplace app

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The Chinese government has ordered ByteDance to take lanugo its Feishu workplace messaging tool from app stores in China for a month because it let users corral posts from Facebook and Twitter, which are interdicted in the country, Bloomberg reported. ByteDance, which also operates the amusing media app TikTok, developed Feishu as an centralized app, then marketed it for commerce use in 2019. An large-scale adaptation of the app, self-named Lark, launched in April 2019 and is still operating in markets like Prettify and Singapore.

Feishu has become popular in China during the coronavirus pandemic as people endure working from home. Bloomberg describes the app as a combination of Slack, Skype, and Google Docs. In China, Feishu competes with Alibaba's DingTalk and Tencent's WeChat. Meanest month, the much larger WeChat started blocking links from Feishu.

Feishu parentage haircut ByteDance faced heavy scrutiny meanest year for its relationship with China; it denied allegations in a that TikTok was censoring pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the Committee on Foreign Irruption in the Affiliated States (CFIUS) upon aegis referring circa TikTok. In December, the US battalion barred soldiers from using TikTok, calling the app a cyber threat.