Hello there we begin in the united states where time is ticking for tick tok the chief of the social media app shows each who was grilled by lawmakers over a whole range of issues mostly related to the company’s Chinese ownership his appearance before the congressional committee comes after the Biden administrative threatened to social media app.
If Chinese owners didn’t sell their shares tick is widely popular in the states it’s got over 150 million American users including almost 5 million businesses while our north America business correspondent Michelle.
In Washington it was never going to be easy be from the moment the committee chairman opened the hearing calling for tick tok to be banned in united states there was no let up tick tok ceo shoo d2 was bombarded by lawmakers worried that the apps Chinese ownership makes it untrustworthy and that it is harmful to American teenagers politicians of all stripes slammed tick tok including republican representation buddy carter the Chinese communist is engaged in psychological warfare through tick tok to deliberately influence us children out of the gate the Singaporean boss of tick tok sought to push back against this characterization I would also like to talk about national security concerns that you have raised that we take very seriously.
We are subsidiary by dance is not own or controlled by the Chinese government it’s a private company sixty percent of the company owned by global institutional investors 20 is owned by the founder and 20 owned by employees around the world but lawmakers remain sceptical leading to some contentious exchanges like this one have you directed them to change that source code.
On Wednesday tick gathered a group of influencers to protest the Biden administrators threat to ban the app.
American teenagers politicians of all stripes slammed tick tok including republican representation buddy carter the Chinese communist is engaged in psychological warfare through tick tok to deliberately influence us children out of the gate the Singaporean boss of tick tok sought to push back against this characterization I would also like to talk about national security concerns that you have raised that we take very seriously.
We are subsidiary by dance is not own or controlled by the Chinese government it’s a private company sixty percent of the company owned by global institutional investors 20 is owned by the founder and 20 owned by employees around the world but lawmakers remain sceptical leading to some contentious exchanges like this one have you directed them to change that source code. If Chinese owners didn’t sell their shares tick tok is widely popular in the states it’s got over 150 million American users including almost 5 million businesses while our north America business correspondent Michelle.
On Wednesday tick tok gathered a group of influencers to protest the Biden administrators to ban the app.
Chinese ownership his appearance before the congressional committee comes after the Biden administrative threatened to social media app.
The committee decided about to ban social media app.
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