{"id":9363,"date":"2023-03-22T05:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T04:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/six-urgent-questions-tiktoks-ceo-needs-to-answer-for-us-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T05:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T04:37:43","slug":"six-urgent-questions-tiktoks-ceo-needs-to-answer-for-us-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/six-urgent-questions-tiktoks-ceo-needs-to-answer-for-us-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Six urgent questions TikTok\u2019s CEO needs to answer for US lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stakes are high for the app\u2019s US future with the administration pushing for Chinese owners to sell their shares in the firm<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u2019s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, will be questioned by lawmakers in Washington on Thursday with the app\u2019s US future <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/16\/the-tiktok-wars-why-the-us-and-china-are-feuding-over-the-app\">in severe doubt<\/a>. The Biden administration wants TikTok\u2019s Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the business or face a complete ban in the US. TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok says such a move would not \u201csolve the problem\u201d. Under a plan dubbed Project Texas, which the White House now appears to have rejected, TikTok is moving its US user data to third party servers and is allowing its source code to be scrutinised by Oracle, a US tech firm which will also vet its app updates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/21\/tiktok-ceo-shou-zi-chew-house-hearing-questions-to-ask\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1ee4d11ca267560f7d995895d6ec2c9873b43262\/0_124_5870_3524\/master\/5870.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=75c86fbe25c2b198f3faed0cd621b992\" title=\"Six urgent questions TikTok\u2019s CEO needs to answer for US lawmakers\" \/>Stakes are high for the app\u2019s US future with the administration pushing for Chinese owners to sell their shares in the firm<br \/>\nTikTok\u2019s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, will be questioned by lawmakers in Washington on Thursday with the app\u2019s US future in severe doubt. The Biden administration wants TikTok\u2019s Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the business or face a complete ban in the US. TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.<br \/>\nTikTok says such a move would not \u201csolve the problem\u201d. Under a plan dubbed Project Texas, which the White House now appears to have rejected, TikTok is moving its US user data to third party servers and is allowing its source code to be scrutinised by Oracle, a US tech firm which will also vet its app updates. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stakes are high for the app\u2019s US future with the administration pushing for Chinese owners to sell their shares in the firm TikTok\u2019s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, will be questioned by lawmakers in Washington on Thursday with the app\u2019s US future in severe doubt. The Biden administration wants TikTok\u2019s Chinese owners to sell their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/six-urgent-questions-tiktoks-ceo-needs-to-answer-for-us-lawmakers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six urgent questions TikTok\u2019s CEO needs to answer for US lawmakers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}