Tag: TikTok

LIVE NOW: NTD Business (March 23): TikTok CEO Grilled in Heated Hearing; Schiff: Bank Bailouts Devalue the Dollar

TikTok’s CEO was grilled by lawmakers from both parties in a high profile hearing today. What did lawmakers ask, and did the CEO in any way convince them? U.S. banks losing deposits, especially after the bank collapses this month. How much did the most vulnerable banks likely lose? How does the government’s effort to support…


NTD Business (March 23): TikTok CEO Grilled in Heated Hearing; Schiff: Bank Bailouts Devalue the Dollar

TikTok’s CEO was grilled by lawmakers from both parties in a high-profile hearing Thursday. What did lawmakers ask, and did the CEO in any way convince them? U.S. banks are losing deposits, especially after the bank collapses this month. How much did the most vulnerable banks likely lose? How does the government’s effort to support…


White House on TikTok CEO Testimony: US Has ‘Legitimate Concerns’ About App on National Security

The United States has “legitimate national security concerns” over TikTok, said National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby. “The president has been very clear. We have legitimate national security concerns over this particular application, and we’re banning it,” Kirby told The Epoch Times’s sister media NTD. “It is banned on government devices, that’s…


TikTok CEO Testifies Company Still Storing Some US User Data Overseas, Raising Security Fears

TikTok is still storing Americans’ data on overseas servers, potentially placing it at risk of being accessed and exploited by China’s communist regime. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified on the matter during a March 23 hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the subject of TikTok’s data privacy practices and ties to…


‘You Should be Banned’: Congress Grills TikTok CEO on CCP Ties

Members of Congress and the CEO of TikTok are engaging in a series of heated exchanges over the app’s ties to China’s communist regime, as the House holds a hearing on TikTok’s data privacy practices. TikTok CEO Shou Chew is appearing before a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the first time…


‘Your Platform Should be Banned’: Congress Grills TikTok CEO on CCP Ties

Members of Congress and the CEO of TikTok are engaging in a series of heated exchanges over the app’s ties to China’s communist regime, as the House holds a hearing on TikTok’s data privacy practices. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is appearing before a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the first…


TikTok CEO Says Chinese Parent Company’s Stalking of US Journalists Not ‘Spying’

The CEO of TikTok claims that efforts by its China-based parent company to stalk American journalists do not qualify as “surveillance” or “spying.” The comments referred to an ongoing Department of Justice investigation regarding how employees at the China-based ByteDance, which owns TikTok, illicitly used TikTok data to track American journalists without their knowledge. When…


Democrats Join TikTok Creators at Capitol Hill to Protest Possible Nationwide Ban

Dozens of TikTok creators descended on Capitol Hill on March 22 in an effort to persuade the Biden administration not to ban the Chinese-owned social media app as the president faces growing pressure. The creators, many of them brandishing signs reading “Keep TikTok,” were joined by Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), and Robert Garcia…


LIVE 12 PM ET: Reps. Miller, Luna, Nehls and Organizations Hold Press Conference to Call for Banning TikTok

Reps. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), and Troy Nehls (R-Texas), joined by Heritage Foundation, Moms For Liberty, influencers, and grassroots demonstrators from across the United States hold a press conference at 12:00 p.m. ET on March 23 to urge a ban on TikTok. …


LIVE NOW: Reps. Miller, Luna, Nehls and Organizations Hold Press Conference to Call for Banning TikTok

Reps. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), and Troy Nehls (R-Texas), joined by Heritage Foundation, Moms For Liberty, influencers, and grassroots demonstrators from across the United States hold a press conference at 12:00 p.m. ET on March 23 to urge a ban on TikTok. …