WASHINGTON, DC, USA – Chinese-owned short video app TikTok faces a “pivotal moment” as a growing number of US lawmakers seek to ban the popular app over national security concerns, CEO Shou Zi Chew said.more than 150 million active monthly US users
“This comes at a pivotal moment for us,” he said on the video that featured the US Capitol in the background and received more than 3.8 million views since it was posted earlier in the day. TikTok’s critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China’s government by the app, which is owned by the Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok rejects the spying allegations.divest their stake in the app or it could face a US banOn Wednesday, TikTok creators and New York Representative Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat, will hold a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol to oppose a TikTok ban.
TikTok, which has said it has spent more than $1.5 billion on rigorous data security efforts, said “if protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn’t solve the problem: a change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access.”