Tiktok talks

TIKTOK TALKS

A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew by lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million US users no closer to an answer as to whether the app will be wiped from their devices. US lawmakers on Thursday, Maarch 23, 2023 (Friday in Manila) pressed Shou over data security and harmful content, responding skeptically during a tense committee hearing to his assurances that the hugely popular video-sharing app prioritizes user safety and should not be banned due to its Chinese connections. Chew spent most of the hearing attempting to push back assertions that TikTok, or its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are tools of the Chinese government. But he failed to answer uncomfortable questions about human rights abuses committed by China against the Uyghurs, and seemed taken aback by a TikTok video displayed by one lawmaker that advocated for violence against the House committee holding the hearing. TikTok has ballooned its American user base to 150 million in a few short years.

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