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TikTok testimony largely theatrical | Ep. 30

TikTok testimony largely theatrical | Ep. 30

Today in Tech

March 24, 202340m 21s

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in front of a hostile and united Congressional committee on Thursday, mostly failing to convince lawmakers that user data it collects from more than 150 million Americans is protected from the Chinese Communist Party. But in the end, there are doubts about whether the government can successfully ban the popular video-sharing application, and whether this hearing was mostly about theatrics and grandstanding.