TikTok CEO Shou Chew had his first appearance before Congress on Thursday and the vitriol he faced from lawmakers was matched only by the vitriolTikTokusers have for lawmakers that simply do not understand how social media works. Chew's hearing, which lasted for more than five very long hours...
Yet, while watching the hearing with TikTok and Snapchat execs on Tuesday, some Senators, namely Republicans, lost the plot and were back to bickering over their old partisan pet issues. With many issues facing children and these social media platforms, Republican Senators like Ted Cruz used ...
Hawley invited both Apple and Chinese social media app TikTok to deliver testimony at the upcoming session. While TikTok said it plans to make a top aide available at a later date, Apple did not comment on its decision to skip the hearing. The companies failed to appear at a simila...
“If you had been consulted on that, we’d have probably had a little different structure for the pardons,” Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, said to Patel during the nominee’s confirmation hearing. Tillis, who is up for reelection in 2026, said it was too late to keep...
The criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams took center stage during his testimony about sanctuary cities at a House Oversight Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. CBS News New York's Alice Gainer reports.
Congress released Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony ahead of his Wednesday hearing, in which Zuckerberg concedes that Facebook was "too slow to spot and respond to Russian interference" during the 2016 election. We've got the details on how to live-st
The Republican-led Senate Banking Committee willhold its own Libra hearing on July 16, where Marcus is expected to testify. Republicans have also expressed skepticism about Libra; Rep. Patrick McHenry, senior Republican on the House Financial Services Committee said there were “many open questions”...
TikTok has hit back, responding that the bans would “do nothing to advance cybersecurity” and “are based on unfounded falsehoods about TikTok.” It touts “Project Texas,” its initiative to wall off its U.S. user data from the rest of the company by placing it under t...