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    Congress grills TikTok CEO. Will a ban follow?

    by Christa Case Bryant Mar 23, 2023 6 minutes

    Is TikTok a Trojan horse for America’s greatest rival? Or is it a creative outlet that fosters community and entrepreneurship – and no worse than other social media platforms when it comes to privacy, screen addiction, and disinformation concerns? 

    That’s the question at hand on Capitol Hill, where there’s growing momentum to ban the increasingly popular platform, whose parent company is Chinese. Fueled in part by pandemic shutdowns, the app’s reach has expanded nearly 20-fold over the past five years to more than 1 billion users. Of those, 150 million are in the United States – including 2 in 3 American teenagers. 

    TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s testimony before Congress on Thursday marked one of the most anticipated appearances on the Hill this year. Speaking before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a packed hearing room, he argued that any safety and security concerns should be addressed through broad legislation rather than through targeted action against his company. 

    “The potential security,

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