How TikTok and ByteDance spent over $13 million on a stalled lobbying campaign
Warner's office did not return a request for comment.
Regardless of their impact on lawmakers, creators' pleas to maintain access to TikTok in the U.S. have seemed to resonate with many American users who see the app as a source of entertainment, information and even income. "I don't think they won over any lawmakers," Alex Moore, communications director for Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said of TikTok's pre-hearing lobbying. Bringing in TikTok creators to amplify the company's message "hasn't swayed my boss," Moore added.
that passed out of the committee last Congress, said she hopes the hearing brings renewed momentum to privacy protections that would apply to other large tech companies as well.ByteDance's quarterly lobbying reports show all of their in-house lobbyists work for TikTok. They include Beckerman, who once worked as a policy director for former GOP Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, along with Freddy Barnes, who had a stint in Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's office.
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