UPDATE, 9:24 AM PT: As the CEO of TikTok hears from the members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, several have expressed support of a ban of the social media site. As they have done at …
hears from the members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, several have expressed support of a ban of the social media site.
Cammack said that the post has remained on the platform for 41 days and is a “direct threat to the chairwoman of this committee, the people in this room. And yet it still remains on the platform.” She said, “To the American people watching today, hear this: TikTok is a weapon by the Chinese Communist party to spy on you, manipulate what you see and exploit for future generations.”
A group of senators led by Mark Warner and John Thune this month introduced a bill, the RESTRICT Act, that would give the federal government new power to restrict and ban technologies from China and five other nations deemed U.S. adversaries, bypassing courts. Lawmakers also pressed Chew with a second line of attack, on the broader ills of social media — from disinformation and hate speech to algorithms destructive to mental health and, specfically, to teenagers — separate from the issue of Chinese control. Chew outlined measures the company has taken to protect teenagers on the platform from time limits to parental controls. But he repeatedly noted that these are issues involving the entire social media ecosystem.
Chew also made a point of telling lawmakers that he was born in Singapore and later moved to the UK, went to college in the U.S. and is married to an American, and that TikTok is headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore.
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