TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein After a one-sided congressional hearing lasting more than five ...
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein After a one-sided congressional hearing lasting more than five ...
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...
Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov R48023 Congressional Research Service SUMMARY TikTok: Frequently Asked Questions and Issues for Congress Since 2018, the social media application TikTok, developed and owned by ByteDance Ltd. (ByteDance), has become one of the most...
In those initial hearings, there appeared to be a rare instance of bipartisan support for some sort of Congressional action to be taken over what was learned in the leaked documents. The Facebook hearings were focused on the issue at hand: child safety on social media platforms. Yet, while ...
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein After a one-sided congressional hearing lasting more than five...
Chew, a 40-year-old Singaporean who was appointed CEO in 2021, said in a TikTok video this week that the congressional hearing comes at a “pivotal moment” for the company, which now has 150 million American users. Chew said TikTok’s data security project is the right answer, not a...
Legislators grill TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew at a six-hour congressional hearing where Chew, a native of Singapore, attempts to push back on assertions that TikTok and ByteDance are tools of the Chinese government. January 2024 TikTok said it was restricting a tool some researchers use to analyze...
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It’s the most aggressive legislation targeting TikTok to come out of a congressional committee since company CEO Shou Chewtestified to lawmakers last yearthat the app poses no threat to Americans. “Today, we will take the first step in creating long-overdue laws to protect Americans from the...