Big Tech
Five Key Moments From TikTok CEO’s Combative Hearing in Congress
- ‘Your platform should be banned’ is lawmakers’ opening attack
- Shou Chew defends company amid questions on suicides, spying
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew sought to protect his company from a potential US ban or forced sale during a four-and-a-half hour congressional hearing that rarely deviated from the hostile note on which it began.
“Your platform should be banned,” Energy and Commerce Committee chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers said at the opening. “I expect today you’ll say anything to avoid this outcome.”