This study is from a US non-profit called Network Contagion Research Institute with everything that you would expect from it.

The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) provides pioneering technology, research, and analysis to identify and forecast cyber-social threats targeting individuals, organizations, and communities. The NCRI is committed to empowering partners to become proactive in protecting themselves against false narratives that create rifts of distrust that impact institutions, capital markets, public health, and safety.

(Emphasis mine)

The reports on their website are indicative of their staunch anticommunism, especially when it comes to “CCP” (aka the Communist Party of China):

https://networkcontagion.us/reports/

Their list of strategic advisors is also indicative of their political tendencies:

https://networkcontagion.us/strategic-advisors/

In other words, no surprise here, the class interests are as visible as can be, but now the libs who desperately want to ban TikTok have a study they can point at and say “evil CCP”.