Sen. Josh Hawley wants China’s TikTok to appear before Congress to “tell the truth about their company and its ambitions and what they’re doing with our data.”
A U.S. senator demanded on Tuesday that Chinese-owned social media company TikTok appear before Congress to shed light on how the Chinese government might be spying on American citizens through its seemingly harmless interface of lip-syncing videos.
“Parents, if you don’t know what TikTok is, you should,” Hawley said at the opening of a hearing of the Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee. “A company compromised by the Chinese Communist Party knows where your children are, knows what they look like, what their voices sound like, what they’re watching and what they share with each other.”
Hawley is a first-term senator who has quickly made a name for himself as a vocal critic of large technology companies based in Silicon Valley. The Big Tech critique is part of a populist message Hawley and others on the right are refining in an attempt to harness the anger and energy that President Trump has both tapped into and unleashed, especially among working-class Americans who feel that they have been sold out by elites.
“No governments, foreign or domestic, direct how we moderate TikTok content. ... We never been asked by the Chinese government to remove any content, and we would not do so if asked,” wrote Vanessa Pappas, general manager of TikTok US.But the Washington Post reported Tuesday that officials at ByteDance headquarters in Beijing often made final decisions on which content could stay on the platform and which had to be taken down.
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