TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to tell Congress his app does more to protect young users than rival social media platforms, invoking a familiar argument as he tries to head off a U.S. ban or forced sale
for those below the age of 18—a policy the company instituted just this month.
TikTok is fighting to convince lawmakers that the company should be allowed to continue operating in the U.S. The company has been told by President Joe Biden’s administration that it needs to separate from its parent, ByteDance, or face a potential ban. Meanwhile, four bills have been proposed in Congress that would limit the app in the U.S.“We spend a lot of time adopting measures to protect teenagers,” Chew will say during opening remarks.
“We have heard important concerns about the potential for unwanted foreign access to U.S. data and potential manipulation of the TikTok U.S. ecosystem,” Chew plans to say. “And our approach has never been to dismiss or trivialize those concerns—it’s been to address them with real action. The bottom line is this: American data stored on American soil, by an American company, overseen by American personnel.
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