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It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too
Lemon8, CapCut, and Gauth are among the other victims of the US ban on ByteDance-owned apps.
Originally created for ByteDance’s own internal messages among employees, it has now become one of the most-used office communications apps in China, with several million active users. Poligon, a Singapore-based subsidiary of ByteDance, publishes several apps that offer users to watch short vertical dramas (Melolo) or read online fiction novels (Fizzo and MyTopia Books). It was acquired by ByteDance in December 2023 merged with TikTok Shop’s operation in the country after the Indonesian government banned the latter app, citing “the need to protect smaller merchants and users' data.”
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