After TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s Tense Hearing, Congress Plots Next Steps
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified for several hours on Thursday in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to defend TikTok as U.S. lawmakers threaten to ban the app in the United States. Members of Congress expressed their fears that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, could be legally compelled to give the Chinese government access to data that it requests. Some representatives said that TikTok could be used as a data-mining operation by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to gather intelligence about the United States and its citizens. “To the American people watching today, hear thi...