Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., asked TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during a House committee hearing Thursday if the app uses moderation tools to remove or censor content that would go against the Chinese Communist Party. She asked specifically about whether the platform removed or censored content associated with the Uighurs or the Tianamen Square massacre. "We do not remove … [Read more...]
TikTok CEO: ‘We are not owned by the Chinese government’
Mr. Shou Zi Chew, CEO of the social media app TikTok, has testified before US Congress amid growing security concerns around user data. Mr Chew said “let me state this unequivocally, ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country” before mentioning Project Texas, a proposal that would move all US data to domestic servers. Read more: … [Read more...]