TikTok says it is ceasing operations in Hong Kong 'in light of recent events'

• Viral video app TikTok says that it is ceasing operations in Hong Kong.
• "In light of recent events, we've decided to stop operations of the TikTok app in Hong Kong," a TikTok spokesperson told Business Insider. 
• China last week unilaterally passed a new national security law for Hong Kong, a move that experts say further erodes the city's waning freedoms. The new law has already been used to arrest at least ten pro-democracy protesters.
• TikTok, one of the most downloaded phone apps in the world, is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.
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Viral video app TikTok says that it is ceasing operations in Hong Kong. A spokesperson for TikTok told Business Insider on Sunday that it decided to stop operations in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory "in light of recent events."

The company said that Hong Kong has also been a small market in terms of the overall number of its users and it was not profitable to maintain operations there. 

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