Is TikTok as bad as Congress says?Ī recent piece in Slate exploring the overlapping concerns listed by Congress members about the app – child safety, accusations that the algorithm is addictive, data privacy, national security – shows that Congress has taken an “everything but the kitchen sink” approach in making its critiques. During a much-spoofed five hours of questioning on March 23, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew repeatedly denied that the app has given US user data to the Chinese government or that they had requested it, telling Congress that ByteDance had not “spied on Americans at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party,” which is the primary complaint from suspicious Republicans. Though Congress has already banned the app from federal devices, Republicans are pushing for a total TikTok ban for Congress members, with an April 17 letter describing it as a “de facto spyware app,” according to The Hill.
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