{"id":9405,"date":"2023-03-23T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T22:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/key-takeaways-from-tiktok-hearing-in-congress-and-the-uncertain-road-ahead\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T23:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T22:38:32","slug":"key-takeaways-from-tiktok-hearing-in-congress-and-the-uncertain-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/key-takeaways-from-tiktok-hearing-in-congress-and-the-uncertain-road-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Key takeaways from TikTok hearing in Congress \u2013 and the uncertain road ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers grilled the social media app\u2019s CEO over its relationship with China and protections for young users<\/p>\n<p>The first appearance in Congress for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a>\u2019s CEO Shou Zi Chew stretched more than five hours, with contentious questioning targeting the app\u2019s relationship with China and protections for its youngest users.<\/p>\n<p>Chew\u2019s appearance comes at a pivotal time for TikTok, which is facing bipartisan fire after experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years. The company is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, raising concerns about China\u2019s influence over the app \u2013 criticisms Chew repeatedly tried to resist throughout the hearing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/23\/key-takeaways-tiktok-hearing-congress-shou-zi-chew\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e02896f36d97a9600a04a97e4996d09469d161da\/0_74_5817_3490\/master\/5817.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5f9f52256046257a44b4df210941073b\" title=\"Key takeaways from TikTok hearing in Congress \u2013 and the uncertain road ahead\" \/>Lawmakers grilled the social media app\u2019s CEO over its relationship with China and protections for young users<br \/>\nThe first appearance in Congress for TikTok\u2019s CEO Shou Zi Chew stretched more than five hours, with contentious questioning targeting the app\u2019s relationship with China and protections for its youngest users.<br \/>\nChew\u2019s appearance comes at a pivotal time for TikTok, which is facing bipartisan fire after experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity in recent years. The company is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, raising concerns about China\u2019s influence over the app \u2013 criticisms Chew repeatedly tried to resist throughout the hearing. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers grilled the social media app\u2019s CEO over its relationship with China and protections for young users The first appearance in Congress for TikTok\u2019s CEO Shou Zi Chew stretched more than five hours, with contentious questioning targeting the app\u2019s relationship with China and protections for its youngest users. Chew\u2019s appearance comes at a pivotal time &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/key-takeaways-from-tiktok-hearing-in-congress-and-the-uncertain-road-ahead\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Key takeaways from TikTok hearing in Congress \u2013 and the uncertain road ahead<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9406,"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\/9405"}],"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=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}