Thread by @stokel

You can tell a lot about a man by his office background, and here's @CSORoland's. This is a man focused on risk.

Lee Hunter, TikTok's Australia general manager: "It's early days for [TikTok] in Australia... we're hiring quickly, on track to double our team by the end of the year. With our success comes added scrutiny. We don't want TikTok to be a political football."

Few people outside Australia seem to have noticed that TikTok went up in front of the Australian Senate overnight UK time. I'm about 10 minutes in so far and there's a lot of similar themes with the UK DCMS Committee

The Australian government didn't engage with TikTok while investigating it. "I think it is quite incredible that a government department would undertake a security review of an organisation and not request any information or input from them," says inquiry chair @jennymcallister

Aaaaay another new line of info about TikTok: it has moderation teams in 20 countries around the world, covering 36 languages. None of TikTok's moderation team is in China, says Lee Hunter, Australia's GM

Also interesting: TikTok Australian GM Lee Hunter very categorically denied in an Australian Senatorial hearing that a human being never intervenes to push or promote content onto the FYP, which... I'm not sure is correct, based on conversations with sources