SINGAPORE — With a five-hour grilling of TikTok chief executive officer Chew Shou Zi
by the United States Congress now over, questions arise about what lies ahead for the social media giant, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.
Mr Chew argued that the platform was doing everything it could to ensure safety and security for its American users. Against a backdrop of deteriorating relations between Beijing and Washington over issues such as Taiwan, US authorities are now calling for ByteDance to give up ownership of its US assets or face a ban.
But his lack of concrete answers about data access and security was “a disaster” and likely set the stage for a ban, said Mr Ives. But if US bans TikTok, it is uncertain how the mechanics would work due to the involvement of US firms providing some of the services associated with the app such as computer servers.
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