Senior TikTok executives and their lobbyists have been briefing members of Congress, academic researchers, think tank writers and others about a $1.5 billion effort that they call Project Texas.
Mario Tama / Getty Images fileTikTok is going on the offensive in Washington, D.C., in a stepped-up effort to counter calls to ban the app in the U.S. over its Chinese ownership. Senior executives at the popular video app and their lobbyists have been briefing members of Congress, academic researchers, think tank writers and others about a $1.
5 billion effort that they call Project Texas, laying out details of how TikTok believes it can address the concerns of people who see it as a security threat, according to people who said they had been briefed and media reports about the lobbying., where two people provided a rundown of what they said they heard at one TikTok briefing last week. Matt Perault, one of the co-authors of the blog post and the director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that much of the political debate around TikTok has been rooted in guesswork, and that the briefing was a chance to hear the company put forward specifics. “The debate should be grounded in the realities of the planned operations rather than in speculation about what those plans may be,” Perault said in a phone interview. He said his center has received funding from TikTok, but that he had no view on whether TikTok’s assurances were satisfactory. He said he saw his role in the briefing as a chance to hear details that he and others could pass along to the public. Some details were also reported by
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