TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew spent Thursday’s congressional hearing on the ropes in a bipartisan beatdown.
Republican and Democratic representatives alike grilled Chew before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing over the Chinese state-owned company’s alleged surveillance of American users. U.S. lawmakers and President Joe Biden’s administration have raised concerns of a potential national security threat posed by TikTok’s Chinese state-owned parent company, ByteDance, and have threatened a national ban on the app.
Republican Alabama Rep. Gary Palmer pressed Chew on the app’s alleged censorship of posts about the internment of Uyghur Muslims in China. TikTok executive Michael Beckerman refused to acknowledge the genocide and concentration camps of Muslims during a December appearance on CNN.
