Overview

• ByteDance listed two Trust & Safety jobs on LinkedIn for its Gurugram office: Content Moderator (Bengali) and Wellbeing Partnership & Operations Lead.
• A ByteDance spokesperson said access has not been restored in India and the company continues to comply with the government directive.
• Government sources stated no order has been issued to lift the 2020 prohibition and called unblocking claims false and misleading.
• The TikTok app remains unavailable on Google Play and the Apple App Store in India.
• Partial reachability of TikTok’s website in recent weeks fueled speculation, but the platform was banned in 2020 over security and data-privacy concerns after the Galwan clash, when it had about 200 million users.