TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify at an upcoming hearing before the US House Energy and Commerce Committee, a spokesperson for the committee confirmed to CNN on Monday. Chew will be the only witness at the March 23 hearing.
The executive is expected to testify about TikTok’s privacy and data security practices, its impact on young users, and its “relationship with the Chinese Communist Party,” according to a hearing announcement posted on the commission’s website.
“We make our concerns clear about TikTok,” the committee chair, Republican Representative from Washington Cathy McMorris Rodgers, said in a statement. “Now it’s time to continue the committee’s efforts to hold Big Tech accountable by bringing TikTok before the committee to provide full and honest answers to people.”
The congressional hearing underscores the growing political risk for TikTok as its talks with the US government over a national security deal continue to drag on. US officials have raised concerns that China could use its laws to pressure TikTok or the company above it, ByteDance, to hand over user data from the country that could be used for intelligence or disinformation purposes. These concerns prompted the US government to ban TikTok from official devices, and more than half of US states have taken similar action, according to a CNN analysis.
Chew, who took over as CEO of TikTok in April 2021, stayed out of the spotlight until the situation became inevitable. Members of Congress previously questioned TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas, the company’s public face in the United States, during a Senate hearing last year.
This article used as a source the writing by Brian Fung to the website CNN Business.
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