TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing titled “TikTok: How Congress can protect U.S. data privacy and protect children from harm online,” as lawmakers review the app on Capitol Hill Chinese-owned video sharing app.
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TikTok CEO Zhou Shou is expected to attend President Trump’s inauguration and will sit on the podium with other tech CEOs including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, according to NBC News sources .
Also expected to attend Google Trump transition official, CEO Sundar Pichai told NBC News.
NBC News has reached out to representatives for TikTok and Google for comment, but TikTok declined and Google did not immediately respond to the request.
The New York Times first reported Zhou’s attendance, citing two people familiar with the matter.
News of the new guests comes just days before TikTok is set to be banned in the United States, with the app likely to be sold on Google Play and the Apple App Store if the Chinese company doesn’t spin off its U.S. subsidiary to an American company Wait for it to be blocked in the store.
So far, TikTok parent company ByteDance has refused to sell, and the Supreme Court has yet to issue a clear ruling since it heard arguments on the law against a TikTok ban last Friday.
President-elect Donald Trump filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court ahead of Friday’s arguments, asking the court to block the ban in order to support the president-elect in finding a political solution, although it is unclear how concrete the ban would be. implement.
Trump has previously changed his stance on TikTok, ultimately embracing the app as an effective campaign tool that helped him win the White House in November.
President Joe Biden’s administration is also considering how to keep TikTok available in the United States if a scheduled ban takes effect on Sunday, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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