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TikTok hearing live: Congress grills CEO on China concerns and teen mental health

App’s future in doubt as Biden administration threatens to ban it entirely in the country

  • TikTok’s CEO eluded the spotlight. Now, he can’t avoid it
  • Six urgent questions Shou Zi Chew needs to answer

Representative Diana DeGette is bringing up the WSJ report again and asking Chew for comment. He said that he’d have to get back to them because whether ByteDance would be forced to sell TikTok is still developing so he doesn’t have specifics but that Project Texas would protect US users no matter what.

“Does TikTok share user information … overseas?” Degette asked. Chew said in the past, yes but with Project Texas that would no longer be the case. He reiterated that the efforts to protect user data through Project Texas is more than any other company has done.

Representative Richard Hudson asked Chew about the reports that ByteDance employees have accessed user data of US journalists in order to investigate an internal leak of information. Chew says TikTok condemns this behavior.

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