Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., on Thursday grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew over a purported internal corporate memo coaching senior management to 'downplay the parent company Bytedance' and China ties.
"What’s interesting to me is that you have used the word 'transparency' over a half a dozen times in your opening testimony and subsequently again, in your answers to my colleagues. Yet the interesting thing to me is that Bytedance, your parent company, has gone out of their way to hide and airbrush corporate structure ties to the CCP, the company's founder, and their activities. You can look no further than the fact that Bytedance website has been scrubbed," Cammack said.
She also grilled Chew over a video posted 41 days prior on TikTok that she says makes a "direct threat" of violence towardChair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. More than an hour later into the hearing, when Rep. Tony Cárdenas, D-Calif., brought up the video again, Chew said he had been briefed during the break that the video has since been removed from the platform.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the platform's consumer privacy and data security practices and impact on children on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. "I would also like to talk about national security concerns that you have raised that we take very, very seriously. Let me start by addressing a few misconceptions about ByteDance, of which we are a subsidiary. ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government," Chew said. "It’s a private company. Sixty percent of the company is owned by global institutional investors, 20% is owned by the founder, and 20% owned by employees around the world.
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