Tiktok Ceo To Tell Lawmakers Its Parent Company Is 'not An Agent Of China'

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Wed, 03/22/2023 - 10:54am

TikTok CEO Shou Chew plans to tell US lawmakers that the app's parent company, ByteDance, does not work for the Chinese government as he seeks to avert a US ban and reassure policymakers TikTok poses no national security threat.

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