TikTok’s chief executive has told hostile US legislators that the viral-video app will be kept “free from any manipulation by any government”, as he struggled to head off a potential US ban.
Shou Zi Chew received a bipartisan pummelling from a congressional committee on Thursday that threatened to ban the Chinese-owned app as a “cancer” and tool of surveillance.
TikTok has become a flashpoint in rising tensions between the US and China, uniting Republicans and Democrats in Washington who are concerned that it could be used to steal sensitive US data.
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