Testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew tried to allay concerns from Congress and the Biden Administration about Chinese government influence on the company, and how the app could be used for propaganda and to capture personal information from users.
The Biden Administration has suggested it might take actions to ban the social media app in the United States if ByteDance does not sell its ownership of TikTok to an American company. There are interested buyers, as the app has around 150 million U.S. users. Recently the company was accused of spying on American journalists.