TIKTOK is facing calls for an outright BAN across the US as the company’s CEO testifies in Congress over fears the app is being used as a SPY tool.
Pressure is building on the popular video-sharing app, owned by Chinese firm Bytedance, to obtain new ownership or lose access to the enormous US market amid fears it could be used as a spying tool.
In a gruelling five-hour hearing with US lawmakers Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced relentless questioning from combative US lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle over the app’s ties to China and its danger to teens.
Chew also told Congress that he believes all social media apps should be banned from Government devices, saying: “I think the government devices should have no social media apps to be honest, not just targeted at us.”
It comes after lawmakers in the UK voted to ban TikTok devices in Westminster amid major fears it could be used by the Chinese government to spy on Britain.
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