House panel grilled TikTok CEO for 5 hours about app’s ties to China
3/23/23
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from The Washington Post,
3/23/23:
In TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s first appearance before Congress, he struggled to address lawmakers’ worries that the extraordinarily popular video app represents a dangerous national security threat because it is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.
To date, lawmakers have offered no evidence of TikTok harming U.S. national security interests.
But Chew faced an especially combative grilling, as lawmakers from both parties appeared unusually united in their distrust of the CEO and concerns about the company’s ties to China.
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