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...
Watching Thursday’s Congressional grilling of TikTok CEO Shou Chew left me convinced of two things: that I am glad not to work in comms for that social platform, and that I may never get the hang of that social platform. My engagement so far with the ByteDance-owned app could make my ...
However, while Politico's report focused on Republicans, Mashable's source emphasized that Democratic members of Congress were hearing from TikTok users too. "It's everyone," the Congressional staffer told Mashable, and added, "The calls are OVERWHELMINGLY from children."...
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. ...
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 is partnering w/Oracle to manage, secure, protect, maintain and store user data. Oracle is a solid US Corp w/global Gov & Biz contracts. The committee tribunal was a poor performance by congressional members; making grandiose statements w/no actual fact-finding Q&A or substance. ...
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...
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...