Asia Tech Wire (Nov 5) -- TikTok's parent company ByteDance has reported sacking 103 people for violations.

ByteDance internally released its fourth briefing of the year from its Corporate Discipline and Professional Ethics Committee on Tuesday.

The briefing shows that 103 people were dismissed (including outsourced and interns) for illegal and unethical behavior, of which 11 were suspected of constituting criminal offenses and were investigated by Chinese public security authorities.

ByteDance also disclosed in this internal briefing the recent attention-grabbing incident of an intern disrupting model training.

The briefing said that from June to July 2024, a former intern employee of commercial products and technology, surnamed Tian, who was dissatisfied with the team's resource allocation, maliciously attacked the model training task of the team's research project by writing and tampering with codes, resulting in the depletion of resources.

ByteDance said the company has terminated the internship agreement with the intern, synchronized the Sunshine Integrity Alliance and the Corporate Anti-Fraud Alliance, and notified the university the individual attended of the incident.