TikTok is integrating itself into the luxury car market, even as the Chinese-owned app faces mounting criticism over U.S. national security concerns. TikTok, Zoom and “Angry Birds” will be available in upcoming models of the Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan.
James Lewis, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the Mercedes deal represents a push to outlast lawmakers’ efforts to crack down on the app, especially as other countries have not expressed the same level of alarm.“TikTok isn’t waiting with bated breath to see what the U.S. does,” he said, adding that the company is “gambling on being so successful that the U.S. isn’t going to be able to take action against them.
It’s unclear if the deal will put more political pressure on Mercedes and other companies that cut deals with the video app company. In a statement to The Washington Post, Sen. Josh Hawley , who introduced the bill to ban TikTok on government phones, said companies “should stop embracing TikTok.” “The app should be banned in the United States,” Hawley said, arguing that the app is controlled by the Chinese government and is therefore a “threat to the privacy of all American users.”meant to counter public officials’ concerns. In a statement to The Post, TikTok spokeswoman Brooke Oberwetter said that the Chinese government had “neither direct nor indirect control" of the video app or its parent, ByteDance.
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