TikTok did use ip tracking of reporters working on a story to try to find whistleblowers. According to TikTok that was a misguided employee who was let go short

TikTok did use ip tracking of reporters working on a story to try to find whistleblowers. According to TikTok that was a misguided employee who was let go shortly after. Though they are hardly alone in the 'misguided employees' department. Ebay had a whole scheme where they flew out a security team to harass and stalk a couple that had criticized ebay in a blog post. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126078948/live-spiders-and-cockroaches-ex-ebay-executives-get-prison-time-in-harassment-pl https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126078948/live-spiders-and-c... I think Facebook and Uber had their own location tracking scandals as well.