💬 Quoted… “TikTok has not provided such data to the Chinese government or CCP, nor would TikTok do so.”

TikTok admitted on Friday that it stores the sensitive data (including SSNs) of some American creators on servers in China. This contradicts CEO Shou Zi Chew's previous claims to Congress, made under oath, that US user data is only stored in Virginia and Singapore.

• According to TikTok, no data stored in China has been shared with Chinese officials, and it is in the process of deleting "protected data" from servers in the country.

🏥 Stat of the Day: New research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation suggests that diabetes cases worldwide are projected to nearly double by 2050, from 529 million people to more than a billion. The increase should be most dramatically felt in Africa and the Middle East.

🤯 Did You Know?... Dolphins must love Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” because they sleep with one eye open. Unlike humans, dolphins don’t breathe automatically – instead, the chatty mammals sleep with one half of their brains at a time. The right eye stays open when the left half of the brain sleeps, and vice versa.

📖 Worth a Read: The Ultra-Secret Underwater Spy System That Might Have Heard the Titan Implode → (WSJ)