TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew was grilled in Congress and questioned about the video app's security and its ownership by Chinese company ByteDance.
Legislators expressed serious concerns and said they have to find the best way to deal with the app. But what kind of app are legislators dealing with here, exactly? Well, the most popular social media app of the decade thus far with 150 million users in the U.S. alone.
Its revenue growth is rising at speeds completely unheard of in recent history, blowing past much more seasoned competitors like Snapchat and Twitter and, according to one analysis, poised to catch longtime cash juggernaut, YouTube.
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